Basic computer graphics devices

Display devices:A display device is an output device

for presentation of information in visual or tactile form
(the latter used for example in tactile electronic displays
for blind people).[When the input information is supplied
as an electrical signal, the display is called an electronic
display.

1)CRT :- Cathod ray tube

Cathode rays were discovered by Johann Hittorf in 1869 in
primitive Crookes tubes. He observed that some unknown rays were
emitted from the cathode (negative electrode) which could cast
shadows on the glowing wall of the tube, indicating the rays were
traveling in straight lines. Artur Shuster demonstrated cathode rays
could be deflected by electric fields, and William Crookes showed they
could be deflected by magnetic fields. In 1897, J. J. Thompson
succeeded in measuring the mass of cathode rays, showing that they
consisted of negatively charged particles smaller than atoms, the first
"subatomic particles", which were later named electrons. The earliest
version of the CRT was known as the "Braun tube", invented by the
German physicist Ferdinand Braun in 1897.It was a cold-cathode diode,
a modification of the Crookes tube with a phosphor-coated screen.
In 1907, Russian scientist Boris Rosing used a CRT in the receiving end of an
experimental video signal to form a picture. He managed to display simple
geometric shapes onto the screen, which marked the first time that CRT
technology was used for what is now known as television.[1] The first cathode
ray tube to use a hot cathode was developed by John B. Johnson (who gave
his
name to the term Johnson noise) and Harry Weiner Weinhart of
Western Electric, and became a
commercial product in 1922. [citation needed]
It was named by inventor Vladimir K. Zworykin in 1929.[7] RCA was granted a

trademark for the

term (for its cathode ray tube) in 1932; it voluntarily
released the term to the public domain in 1950. [8]

The first commercially made electronic television sets with cathode ray tubes were manufactured
by Telefunken in Germany in 1934.[9][10]

Fig: Braun's original cold-cathode CRT, 1897

2) LED:The most important part of a light emitting diode (LED) is the semi-conductor chip
located in the center of the bulb as shown at the right. The chip has two regions separated
by a junction. The p region is dominated by positive electric charges, and the n region is
dominated by negative electric charges. The junction acts as a barrier to the flow of
electrons between the p and the n regions. Only when sufficient voltage is applied to the
semi-conductor chip, can the current flow, and the electrons cross the junction into the p
region.