Xenon excimer emission from pulsed high-pressure capillary microdischarges
Author(s) -
Byungjoon Lee,
Hasibur Rahaman,
I. Petzenhauser,
K. Frank,
Konstantinos P. Giapis
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.2748314
Subject(s) - xenon , cathode , excimer , excimer laser , ultraviolet , capillary action , emission intensity , analytical chemistry (journal) , chemistry , atmospheric pressure , materials science , light emission , optics , optoelectronics , laser , luminescence , physics , oceanography , organic chemistry , chromatography , composite material , geology
Intense xenon vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) emission is observed from a high-pressure capillary cathode microdischarge in direct current operation, by superimposing a high-voltage pulse of 50 ns duration. Under stagnant gas conditions, the total VUV light intensity increases linearly with pressure from 400 to 1013 mbar for a fixed voltage pulse. At fixed pressure, however, the VUV light intensity increases superlinearly with voltage pulse height ranging from 0.8 to 2.8 kV. Gains in emission intensity are obtained by inducing gas flow through the capillary cathode, presumably because of excimer dimer survival due to gas cooling.
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