Operating Characteristics of Xenon Gas Discharges

Abstract

The voltage-current and spectral line intensity-current characteristics were measured for four Xenon gas discharges. The four discharge configurations were made up of two tubes, each examined at pressures of 1 and 10 Torr. The first tube was a hot filament tube with a 1 cm radius, and the second a cold cathode type tube of radius .3 cm. Intensity dependence upon current was primarily linear in all cases with some important deviations. The hot filament tube at 10 Torr showed a large decrease in intensity between 4 and 6 mA in the 8409 angstrom line. This is thought to be connected with the onset of constriction in the discharge at this point. The coincidence of the upper level of this transition with several molecular ion levels of xenon, could account for quenching of this transition. (JS)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA230660

Entities

People

  • Michael E. Ruark

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Angular Momentum
  • Atoms
  • Cold Cathode Tubes
  • Electron Density
  • Electron Emission
  • Electrons
  • Emission
  • Gas Discharges
  • Gas Heating
  • Glow Discharges
  • Ground State
  • Measurement
  • Space Charge
  • Spectral Lines
  • Spin-Orbit Interaction
  • Striations

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics.