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Continual bursts as a result of inter‐glow‐arc flip‐flop transition
Author(s) -
Suginuma Yositaka,
Nogaki Masayoshi,
Takahashi Tsutomu
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
electrical engineering in japan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1520-6416
pISSN - 0424-7760
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6416(199710)121:1<1::aid-eej1>3.0.co;2-b
Subject(s) - arc (geometry) , flip flop , jump , electrode , voltage , glow discharge , materials science , atomic physics , physics , optoelectronics , plasma , engineering , nuclear physics , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics , cmos
The inter‐glow‐arc flip‐flop transition occurs between glow and arc discharges even in the normal glow region. Here voltages successively jump up and down at nearly the same current. The effect appears as extended continual bursts. We became aware of this fact earlier, but recently measurement assisted by a PC and GP‐IB has enabled us to study it quantitatively. The investigation was conducted on Ag electrodes in the atmosphere as a typical example. In this paper the way in which the bursts influence the measured values of this transition is presented and discussed. © 1997 Scripta Technica, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 121(1): 1–8, 1997