https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2014-50708-y
Regular Article
Influence of convection on the energy characteristics of XeCl excilamps
1 Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, 634055 Tomsk, Russia
2 Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
3 All-Russia Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, Russian Federal Nuclear Centre, 607188 Sarov, Russia
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e-mail: badik@loi.hcei.tsc.ru
Received: 26 September 2014
Received in final form: 5 November 2014
Published online: 22 January 2015
In the work, we studied the influence of convection on the energy characteristics of coaxial XeCl excilamps driven by a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD). For the study, a special bulb with axially offset outer and inner tubes was manufactured and a gas convection model was developed. It is shown that convection of the mixture can provide an increase of 10–30% in excilamp radiation intensity compared to excilamps with no convection. The presence of convection of the working mixture increases the excilamp lifetime.
Key words: Plasma Physics
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