thyratron in a sentence

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1. In 1952, Jewell James Ebers from Bell Labs developed a prototype solid-state analog of thyratron  a four-layer transistor, or thyristor.
2. DuMont was one of the earliest designers of the trigger sweep oscilloscope using a gas thyratron vacuum tube ( forerunner to the silicon controlled rectifier or SCR ).
3. One miniature thyratron found an additional use as a noise source, when operated as a diode ( grid tied to cathode ) in a transverse magnetic field.
4. Many types of cold-cathode switching tube were developed, including various types of thyratron, the krytron, cold cathode displays ( Nixie tube ) and others.
5. This cell could be replaced by one thyratron with a load resistor and an input capacitor, but the operating frequency of such circuit did not exceed a few kHz.
6. In 1932 Wynn-Williams published details of his thyratron-based scale-of-two counter, which allowed particles to be counted at much higher rates than previously.
7. Like most linear beam tubes having external tuning cavities, IOTs are vulnerable to crowbar circuit based on a hydrogen thyratron or a triggered spark gap in the high-voltage supply.
8. The gas in a thyratron is typically at a fraction of the pressure of air at sea level; 15 to 30 millibars ( 1.5 to 3 kPa ) is typical.
9. A typical hot-cathode thyratron uses a heated filament cathode, completely contained within a shield assembly with a control grid on one open side, which faces the plate-shaped anode.
10. Formerly, the mercury arc valve, the high-vacuum and gas-filled diode thermionic rectifiers, and triggered devices such as the thyratron and ignitron were widely used in power electronics.