A gas-discharge chamber with a discharge initiated by an auxiliary discharge along the surface of a ferroelectric ceramic

Authors
Bulychev, SV Dubinov, AE Zhdanov, VS Sadovoy, SA Selemir, VD
Citation
Sv. Bulychev et al., A gas-discharge chamber with a discharge initiated by an auxiliary discharge along the surface of a ferroelectric ceramic, INSTR EXP R, 42(3), 1999, pp. 394-397
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Instrumentation & Measurement
Journal title
INSTRUMENTS AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES
ISSN journal
00204412 → ACNP
Volume
42
Issue
3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
394 - 397
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-4412(199905/06)42:3<394:AGCWAD>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
The gas-discharge chamber designed differs from other chambers by its disch arge-initiating device, which is a plasma emitter based on a ferroelectric ceramic. An extended plasma channel with a length of 3 m and an electron co ncentration higher than 10(12) cm(-3) can be generated in the chamber at a working gas lair) pressure of similar to 10(-2) Torr. The plasma channel ex ists for several tens of microseconds. A periodically pulsed operation mode with a 50-Hz pulse repetition rate is implemented.