Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electrode used in certain electron tubes to provide secondary emission.
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- noun physics Any of a series of
electrodes within aphotomultiplier tube.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The materials should still be as close as possible, optically speaking, to the original scintillator, to allow for PMT cross-talk effects such as dynode glow, etc.
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The output from the metal channel dynode chain is a current proportional to the number of photons striking the photocathode and to the voltage drops along the dynode channel.
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The output from the metal channel dynode chain is a current proportional to the number of photons striking the photocathode and to the voltage drops along the dynode channel.
unknown title 2009
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Initial measurement in the 200-250-nm range revealed a rapid increase of the dynode voltage around 220 nm.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yuan-Ping Pang et al. 2009
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