Electrode erosion in a high-frequency spark discharge

Journal Article · Fri Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1984 · J. Eng. Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)

OSTI ID:6119041

Gal'burt, V A; Pustovit, A N; Sikharulidze, G G

The extensive use of mass-spectral instruments with spark ion sources makes urgent the task of increasing their metrological characteristics, permitting an improvement in the productivity and accuracy of the mass-spectral method of analysis. Therefore, the systematic study of the mechanisms of a spark breakdown and the parameters of the plasma obtained in a spark gap is of considerable interest. The authors present here an investigation of the disperse composition of the products of electrode destruction in a high-frequency vacuum breakdown and the variation of the relative degree of plasma ionization as a function of the material of the electrodes and the high-frequency voltage applied to them.

• Research Organization: Institute of Solid-State Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow
• OSTI ID: 6119041
• Journal Information: J. Eng. Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Journal Name: J. Eng. Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States) Vol. 45:6; ISSN JEPHA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
BEAMS
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
ELECTRIC DISCHARGES
ELECTRIC SPARKS
ELECTRODES
ENERGY SPECTRA
EROSION
FABRICATION
HIGH-FREQUENCY DISCHARGES
ION BEAMS
ION SOURCES
IONIZATION
MASS SPECTROMETERS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
PLASMA PRODUCTION
SPARK GAPS
SPECTRA
SPECTROMETERS