Penning plasma based simultaneous light emission source of visible and VUV lights

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• 作者：G. L. Vyas ; R. Prakash ; U. N. Pal ; R. Manchanda ; N. Halder
• 刊名：Plasma physics reports
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：42
• 期：6
• 页码：601-609
• 全文大小：1,246 KB
• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics
  Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Plasmas
  Russian Library of Science
• 出版者：MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica distributed exclusively by Springer Science+Business Media LLC.
• ISSN：1562-6938
• 卷排序：42

文摘

In this paper, a laboratory-based penning plasma discharge source is reported which has been developed in two anode configurations and is able to produce visible and VUV lights simultaneously. The developed source has simultaneous diagnostics facility using Langmuir probe and optical emission spectroscopy. The two anode configurations, namely, double ring and rectangular configurations, have been studied and compared for optimum use of the geometry for efficient light emissions and recording. The plasma is produced using helium gas and admixture of three noble gases including helium, neon, and argon. The source is capable to produce eight spectral lines for pure helium in the VUV range from 20 to 60 nm and total 24 spectral lines covering the wavelength range 20–106 nm for the admixture of gases. The large range of VUV lines is generated from gaseous admixture rather from the sputtered materials. The recorded spectrum shows that the plasma light radiations in both visible and VUV range are larger in double ring configuration than that of the rectangular configurations at the same discharge operating conditions. To clearly understand the difference, the imaging of the discharge using ICCD camera and particle-in-cell simulation using VORPAL have also been carried out. The effect of ion diffusion, metastable collision with the anode wall and the nonlinear effects are correlated to explain the results.The article is published in the original.