Measurement of Ar resonance and metastable level number densities in argon containing plasmas

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 50, Issue 35, 2017, Pages

  Fiebrandt, Marcel ^a   Hillebrand, Bastian ^a   Spiekermeier, Stefan ^a   Bibinov, Nikita ^a   Böke, Marc ^a   Awakowicz, Peter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

argon state densities; branching fraction method; OES; TDLAS

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; NITROGEN; SPECTROMETERS;

ARGON-OXYGEN MIXTURES; BRANCHING FRACTIONS; LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; LOW-RESOLUTION SPECTROMETER; METASTABLE LEVELS; NUMBER DENSITY; STATE DENSITIES; TDLAS;

NITROGEN PLASMA;

EID: 85028048500     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/aa7d67     Document Type: Article

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