On the characteristics of the resonance radiation of pulsed low-pressure discharges in He-Xe mixtures

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.19) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Sveshnikov V.K ◽  
Bazarkin A.F ◽  
Kurenschikov A.V

They consider the calculation technique for the resonance radiation power of a direct low-pressure sodium lamp with a sickle-shaped discharge tube cross-section. The calculation of the sodium discharge radiation power is difficult in such a tube, as compared with the calculation in a cylindrical shape tube. The dependence of the relative output of sodium discharge resonant radiation occurring in equivalent discharge tubes in the form of a parallelepiped and a cylinder is based on the involvement of the theory by M. Cayless. The obtained results were used to determine the power of DNaO-85M lamp resonant radiation. They presented the scheme of the device to study the influence of the tube geometry on sodium discharge power. It is shown that the power of the resonance radiation generated by an equivalent discharge will be the greater, the larger the cross section of the discharge tube. The discrepancy between the calculated and the experimental data for resonant radiation power determination in a crescent-shaped tube is less than 4%.  


Author(s):  
L.H. Bolz ◽  
D.H. Reneker

The attack, on the surface of a polymer, by the atomic, molecular and ionic species that are created in a low pressure electrical discharge in a gas is interesting because: 1) significant interior morphological features may be revealed, 2) dielectric breakdown of polymeric insulation on high voltage power distribution lines involves the attack on the polymer of such species created in a corona discharge, 3) adhesive bonds formed between polymer surfaces subjected to such SDecies are much stronger than bonds between untreated surfaces, 4) the chemical modification of the surface creates a reactive surface to which a thin layer of another polymer may be bonded by glow discharge polymerization.


Author(s):  
Gert Ehrlich

The field ion microscope, devised by Erwin Muller in the 1950's, was the first instrument to depict the structure of surfaces in atomic detail. An FIM image of a (111) plane of tungsten (Fig.l) is typical of what can be done by this microscope: for this small plane, every atom, at a separation of 4.48Å from its neighbors in the plane, is revealed. The image of the plane is highly enlarged, as it is projected on a phosphor screen with a radius of curvature more than a million times that of the sample. Müller achieved the resolution necessary to reveal individual atoms by imaging with ions, accommodated to the object at a low temperature. The ions are created at the sample surface by ionization of an inert image gas (usually helium), present at a low pressure (< 1 mTorr). at fields on the order of 4V/Å.


Nature ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Ball
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