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Beam Penetration Method: Phosphor

There are two main methods for color CRT monitor display: 1. The beam penetration method is simple but less effective, producing only four colors by coating red and green phosphor layers and controlling beam speed. 2. The more effective shadow mask method uses three electron guns and a shadow mask grid behind red, green, and blue phosphor dots to produce millions of colors. It arranges the guns and dots in either a triangular delta-delta method or simpler inline method.

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Beam Penetration Method: Phosphor

There are two main methods for color CRT monitor display: 1. The beam penetration method is simple but less effective, producing only four colors by coating red and green phosphor layers and controlling beam speed. 2. The more effective shadow mask method uses three electron guns and a shadow mask grid behind red, green, and blue phosphor dots to produce millions of colors. It arranges the guns and dots in either a triangular delta-delta method or simpler inline method.

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Name: Atanda Toheeb Dare

Matric:S02/CTE/2016/1092

Course: Computer Graphics

Write and discuss the two method of Colour CRT monitor Display methods.

There are mainly two techniques for this. One is simple but less effective, Beam Penetration
Method. Another is a little bit complicated but more effective, Shadow Mask Method.

Beam Penetration Method

We coat two layers of phosphor red and green from inside the CRT screen. Then the color at
any specific point depends on the speed of the electron beam. Three cases are possible:
 Firstly, A slow electron beam will strike only the red layer. And it will produce red
color at that point.
 Secondly, A fast electron beam will strike only the green layer and it will produce
green color at that point.
 Lastly, An electron beam with intermediate speed can produce an orange and
yellow color.
Some important points to understand its working:

1. We use this method with random scan monitors.


2. Also, It is an inexpensive way of producing colors.
3. Then, It can produce only four colors.
4. But, The quality of the pictures is not very good.
5. Moreover, We need to control beam acceleration voltage again and again to
show different colors.
6. It fills the colors in a picture one by one. For example, first, it fills all the red
portions in the picture, then yellow, and so on.
So, What do you think?
Overall a very basic method to produce colors, but only four colors can be produced. Not
enough.

Now we move to the next method. Then understand the working of color CRT.
Shadow Mask Method

Millions of shades are possible. Firstly, we will see the construction.

Construction

A shadow mask CRT has three phosphor color dots at each pixel position. While one phosphor
dot emits red light, the second dot emits green color, and the third one emits blue color. We use
three electron guns. Then we place a shadow mask grid just behind the phosphor-coated
screen.

With the above-mentioned components, two arrangements are possible. Such as

 Delta-Delta method
 Inline method
Delta-Delta method

In this method, three electron guns and corresponding red-blue-green color dots on the screen
are arranged in a triangular fashion. Hence, the arrangement is a little bit complicated to
implement.
Inline Method

In this method, we align three electron guns and corresponding red-blue-green color dots on the
screen along one scan line. This inline arrangement is easier to implement. Therefore, we
commonly use it in High-resolution Color CRT monitors.

Working

Shadow mask contains a series of holes. Three electron beams are deflected and focused onto
the shadow mask.So that the electron beam can activate only its corresponding color dot. When
it passes through the shadow mask.

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