Excimer emission spectra of rare gas mixtures using either a supersonic expansion or a heavy-ion-beam excitation

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1746-1754

  Efthimiopoulos, T ^a   Zouridis, D ^b   Ulrich, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCIMER LASERS; ION BEAMS; LIGHT EMISSION; MIXTURES; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PLASMAS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

HEAVY ION BEAM EMISSION;

INERT GASES;

EID: 0031162558     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/30/12/010     Document Type: Article

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