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Intensifier meaning
That which intensifies. | A word or particle that heightens the intensity of meaning of a term. | A chemical agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a photograph.
Example sentences (7)
An image intensifier inherently includes a shutter functionality: If the control voltage between the photocathode and the MCP is reversed, the emitted photoelectrons are not accelerated towards the MCP but return to the photocathode.
ICCD cameras are in general somewhat higher in price than EMCCD cameras because they need the expensive image intensifier.
Night vision devices Photons hitting a thin film of alkali metal or semiconductor material such as gallium arsenide in an image intensifier tube cause the ejection of photoelectrons due to the photoelectric effect.
These are often called photocathodes and are used in phototubes used in scientific instruments and image intensifier tubes used in night vision goggles.
This can be used, for instance, as an image intensifier in which the discrete channels substitute for focussing.
This effect is used in phototubes and image intensifier tubes.
Thus, no electrons are multiplied and emitted by the MCP, no electrons are going to the phosphor screen and no light is emitted from the image intensifier.