Optical characteristics and parameters of the plasma of a barrier discharge excited in a mixture of mercury dibromide vapor with nitrogen and helium

Journal Article · Wed Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Plasma Physics Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X10090072· OSTI ID:21443458

Malinina, A A; Guivan, N N; Shimon, L L; Shuaibov, A K ^[1]

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1. Uzhgorod National University (Ukraine)

Results are presented from experimental and theoretical studies of the optical characteristics and parameters of the plasma of an atmospheric-pressure barrier discharge excited in a HgBr{sub 2}: N{sub 2}: He mixture, which was used as the working medium of a small-size (with a radiation area of 8 cm{sup 2}) exciplex gas-discharge radiation source. The mean radiation power of 87 mW was achieved at the radiation wavelength {lambda}{sub max} = 502 nm. The electron energy distribution function, the transport characteristics, the specific energy lost in the processes involving electrons, the electron temperature and density, and the rate constants of elastic and inelastic electron scattering by the components of the working mixture were calculated as functions of the reduced field E/N. The plasma of a discharge excited in a HgBr{sub 2}: N{sub 2}: He mixture can be used as the working medium of a small-size blue-green radiation source. Such a source can find application in biotechnology, photonics, and medicine and can also be used to manufacture gas-discharge display panels.

• OSTI ID: 21443458
• Journal Information: Plasma Physics Reports, Vol. 36, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1134/S1063780X10090072; Copyright (c) 2010 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; ISSN 1063-780X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
ELASTIC SCATTERING
ELECTRIC DISCHARGES
ELECTRON DENSITY
ELECTRON TEMPERATURE
ELECTRONS
ENERGY SPECTRA
HELIUM
INELASTIC SCATTERING
MERCURY BROMIDES
MIXTURES
NITROGEN
PLASMA
RADIATION SOURCES
REACTION KINETICS
VAPORS
BROMIDES
BROMINE COMPOUNDS
DISPERSIONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ELEMENTS
FERMIONS
FLUIDS
GASES
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
KINETICS
LEPTONS
MERCURY COMPOUNDS
MERCURY HALIDES
NONMETALS
RARE GASES
SCATTERING
SPECTRA