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dynode
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n. (context physics English) Any of a series of electrodes within a photomultiplier tube.
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A dynode is an electrode in a vacuum tube that serves as an electron multiplier through secondary emission . The first tube to incorporate a dynode was the dynatron , an ancestor of the magnetron , which used a single dynode. Photomultiplier and video camera ...
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The individual neutron light signals reaching the photo-multiplier produce short avalanches of electrons, a signal which is detectable as a negative electrical pulse at the last dynode of the tube.