On the Temperature and Plasma Distribution of an Inductively Driven Xe-I2-Discharge
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Plasma Distribution
3.2. Temperature Distribution
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Xenon Collision Reactions | ||||||
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No. | Process | Reaction | Source | |||
1 | Elastic | ⟶ | [14] | |||
2 | Excitation | ⟶ | 8.31 | [15] | ||
3 | Excitation | ⟶ | 8.43 | [16] | ||
4 | Ionisation | ⟶ | 12.12 | [17] | ||
5 | Stepwise ionisation | ⟶ | 3.44 | [18] | ||
Xenon Relaxation and Surface Reactions | ||||||
No. | Process | Reaction | Source | |||
6 | Relaxation | ⟶ | −8.43 | [19] | ||
7 | Recombination | ⟶ | ||||
8 | Relaxation | ⟶ | ||||
9 | Relaxation | ⟶ | ||||
Iodine Collision Reactions | ||||||
No. | Process | Reaction | Source | |||
10 | Dissociative attachment | ⟶ | [20] | |||
11 | Elastic | ⟶ | [21] | |||
12 | Ionisation | ⟶ | 10.45 | [22] | ||
Iodine Surface Reactions | ||||||
No. | Process | Reaction | Source | |||
13 | Recombination | ⟶ | I | |||
14 | Decay | ⟶ | I | |||
15 | Recombination | ⟶ |
Lamp Geometry | Unit | Value | Coil Geometry | Unit | Value |
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Inner diameter | [mm] | 54 | Inner diameter | [mm] | 59 |
Outer diameter | [mm] | 56 | Outer diameter | [mm] | 67 |
Length | [mm] | 78 | Length | [mm] | 75 |
Volume | [cm] | 111 | Frequency | [MHz] | 3 |
Filling pressure | [Pa] | 100 | Windings | 8 | |
Starting gas | Xe | ||||
Filling material | I | ||||
Amount of solid | [mg] | 1.0 | |||
Calculated initial pressure | [Pa] | 190 |
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Gehring, T.; Eizaguirre, S.; Jin, Q.; Dycke, J.; Renschler, M.; Kling, R. On the Temperature and Plasma Distribution of an Inductively Driven Xe-I2-Discharge. Plasma 2021, 4, 745-754. https://doi.org/10.3390/plasma4040037
Gehring T, Eizaguirre S, Jin Q, Dycke J, Renschler M, Kling R. On the Temperature and Plasma Distribution of an Inductively Driven Xe-I2-Discharge. Plasma. 2021; 4(4):745-754. https://doi.org/10.3390/plasma4040037
Chicago/Turabian StyleGehring, Tim, Santiago Eizaguirre, Qihao Jin, Jan Dycke, Manuel Renschler, and Rainer Kling. 2021. "On the Temperature and Plasma Distribution of an Inductively Driven Xe-I2-Discharge" Plasma 4, no. 4: 745-754. https://doi.org/10.3390/plasma4040037