Arc spot formation on cold cathodes in high-intensity discharge lamps

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 1 II, 2002, Pages 208-218

  Lenef, Alan ^a   Budinger, Bowman ^a   Peters, Christopher ^a  

^a OSRAM SYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc spots; Cold cathodes; HID lamps; Starting

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COLD CATHODE TUBES; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IONS; MONOCHROMATORS; QUARTZ; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SURFACES;

ARC-SPOTS;

DISCHARGE LAMPS;

EID: 0036478111     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.1003862     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (31)

1. Advances in starting high intensity discharge lamps
2. Cathode mode transitions in high pressure discharge lamps at startup
3. Special issue on vacuum discharge plasmas
4. Measurement of the tungsten ion concentration after forced extinction of a vacuum arc
5. On modes of arc cathode operation
6. Cathode spot erosion and ionization phenomena in the transition from vacuum to atmospheric pressure arcs
7. The nature of an arc discharge with a mercury cathode in vacuum
8. Theoretical prediction of non-thermionic arc cathode erosion rate including both vaporization and melting of the surface
9. Ecton mechanism of the vacuum arc cathode spot
10. The form of inclusions and surface: Contamination arc initiation at low pressures
11. Electron emission from a liquid metal
12. Field emission processes and arcing in a glow discharge
13. Glow-to-arc transition
14. Study of a cathode spot prior to arcing in a steady glow discharge
15. Investigations of the ignition of arc spots on cold cathodes in a noble gas atmosphere
16. The energy spectrum of electrons field emitted from carbon fiber micropoint cathodes
17. The glow-discharge-to-arc transition instability
18. Abnormal glow discharges in Ar: Experiments and models
19. Analytical formulation of ionization source term for discharge models in argon, helium, nitrogen, and silane
20. Current density for cold cathode discharge gap in rare gases
21. Glow-to-arc transitions in gas discharge lamps
22. Chemi-ionzation of ground-state Hg atoms by excited Ar atoms
23. Glow discharges at DC and low frequencies
24. Laws governing the cathode drop and the threshold of currents in an arc discharge on pure metals
25. The vacuum arc switch: Properties of the vacuum are