tetrode

tetrode
/te"trohd/, n. Electronics.
a vacuum tube containing four electrodes, usually a plate, two grids, and a cathode.
[1900-05; TETR- + -ODE1]

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      vacuum-type electron tube with four electrodes. In addition to the cathode filament, anode plate, and control grid, as in the triode, an additional grid, the screen grid, is placed between the control grid and the anode plate. The screen grid acts as an electrostatic shield to protect the control grid from the influence of the plate when its potential changes. Although the pentode has replaced the tetrode in most vacuum-tube functions, a specially designed tetrode, called the beam-power tube, has found extensive use in power amplification.

      A special form of tetrode was the dynatron, a vacuum tube that was operated with screen-grid voltage higher than plate voltage so that the tube exhibited negative resistance (i.e., plate current decreased when plate voltage increased), a useful characteristic in oscillator circuits. The screen grid also caused an electron-acceleration effect that increased the tube's gain over that of the triode. Today radio and television stations use giant metal-ceramic (instead of glass) tetrodes capable of high power outputs. These are often referred to as radial-beam tetrodes.

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