Characterization of argon metastable species as function of time, space, and current of a pulsed dc glow discharge

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 619-626

  Lotito, G ^a,b   Nelis, T ^c   Guillot, Ph ^c   Gunther D ^a  

^a LABORATORY OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Switzerland)

^b TOFWERK AG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Absorption; Afterglow; Argon metastable; Emission; Pulsed glow discharge

Indexed keywords

AFTERGLOW; FUNCTION OF TIME; ICCD CAMERAS; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; METASTABLE SPECIES; OPTICAL BANDPASS FILTERS; OPTICAL EMISSIONS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; PULSED GLOW DISCHARGE; PULSED-DC GLOW DISCHARGE; SPATIAL REGIONS; TIME-RESOLVED IMAGE;

ABSORPTION; BANDPASS FILTERS; CAMERAS; CATHODES; GLOW DISCHARGES; NEUTRON EMISSION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 80052909437     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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