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Cold cathode

A cold cathode vacuum tube is one in which there is no cathode heater[?]. In such a tube, glow discharge[?] is usually minimized, in favor of arc[?] discharge. Some important examples include the krytron[?], sprytron[?], and ignitron[?] tubes.

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