Characterization of the flowing afterglows of an N2-O 2 reduced-pressure discharge: Setting the operating conditions to achieve a dominant late afterglow and correlating the NOβ UV intensity variation with the N and O atom densities

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1694-1711

  Boudam, M K ^a   Saoudi, B ^a   Moisan, M ^a   Ricard, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; METASTABLE PHASES; PLASMA SOURCES; POLYMERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ACTINOMETRY; ATOM DENSITY; CHAMBER ENTRANCE; EROSION DAMAGE;

GLOW DISCHARGES;

EID: 33947676844     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/40/6/019     Document Type: Article

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