On 01/29/2013 03:20 PM, John Rehwinkel wrote:
> I did some research a while back on photoetching services, and found one that 
> will etch from the front, the back, or both at the customer's option.  They 
> point out that this gives a profile to the etched object.  I figured I'd etch 
> from the back for nixie cathodes, so the front (facing the viewer) surface 
> was the largest.  Since we'd be etching pretty thin material, I doubt it 
> would be a big problem.
If you are etching from the back, the *back* side will be the largest. I
do not think, though, that this will make much of a difference because
the actual glow emission does not happen on but just above the electrode
surface. In the nixies I have seen it appeared to me as though the
diameter of the light-emitting part of the neon gas was large compared
to the width of the numbers.

- jaseg

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