Physics And Applications Of Pseudosparks

Devices and Related Properties.- The Properties of the Pseudospark Discharge.- Review of Superdense Glow Discharge.- Basic Mechanisms Contributing to the Hollow Cathode Effect.- Cathode-Related Processes in High-Current Density, Low Pressure Glow Discharges.- Comparison of Electrode Effects in High-Pressure and Low-Pressure Gas Discharges Like Spark-Gap and Pseudospark.- Experimental Review.- Mapping and Modeling of the Cathode Fall and Negative Glow Regions.- Emission Spectroscopy in Optically Thick Gas Discharges.- An Analysis of the High Current Glow Discharge Operation of the BLT Switch.- Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Number Densities of Neutral and Ionized Metal Atoms.- Streamers in Atmospheric Pressure N2: Empirical Results.- Theoretical Modeling.- The Solution of the Continuity Equations in Ionization and Plasma Growth.- Scaling Parameters for Optically Triggered Hollow Cathode Switches Obtained by Computer Simulation.- A Physical Model of Prebreakdown in the Hollow Cathode Pseudospark Discharge Based on Numerical Simulations.- Self-Consistent Models of DC and Transient Glow Discharges.- Weak Collisions in Strong Double Layers.- The Effect of Pendel Electrons on Breakdown and Sustainment of a Hollow Cathode Discharge.- A Two-Electron-Group Model for a High Current Pseudospark or Back- Lighted Thyratron Plasma.- Electron Ionization Rate Coefficients at Very High E/N.- New Applications.- Plasma-Based Device Concepts Based on the Pseudospark and BLT.- Emittance Measurement of a Pseudospark-Produced Electron Beam.- New Ways of Electron Emission for Power Switching and Electron Beam Generation.

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• Authors: M Gundersen, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Physi, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Physics and Applications of Hollow Glow Switches 1989, G Schaefer
• Assisted by: Martin A Gundersen (Editor), Martin A. Gundersen (Editor), Gerhard Schaefer (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.1990
• EAN: 9780306435393
• ISBN: 978-0-306-43539-3
• Series: Nato Science Series B: Advances in Risk Analysis; Nato Science Series B: (closed); Nato Science Series B: Advances in Risk Analysis
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous