Cross Sections for Ionization of Rare Gas Excimers by Electron Impact and Atomic and Molecular Processes in Excimer Lasers.

Abstract

Theoretical cross sections for ionization of metastable excimers - helium, neon, argon, krypton and zenon - and of metastable mercury are presented. Systematic trends in inelastic form factors and Born cross sections for collisional transitions between excited neighboring levels of atoms are discovered and discussed. Key cycles of atomic and molecular collision processes in excimer lasers are delineated and discussed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA086698

Entities

People

  • K. J. Mccann
  • M. Raymond Flannery

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Angular Momentum
  • Charge Transfer
  • Differential Equations
  • Displacement Reactions
  • Dissociation
  • Electron Beams
  • Electron Transfer
  • Electrons
  • Energy Transfer
  • Excimer Lasers
  • Excimers
  • Ground State
  • High Pressure
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Quantum Numbers
  • Spin-Orbit Interaction

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Microelectronics