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Wehnelt cylinder
A Wehnelt cylinder is an electrode in the electron gun assembly, used for focusing and control of the electron beam. It is named after Arthur Rudolph Berthold Wehnelt, a German physicist, who invented it during the years 1902 and 1903.
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