Modeling of a DC glow discharge in a neon– xenon gas mixture at low pressure and with metastable atom densities

A BOUCHIKHI

doi:10.1088/2058-6272/aa74ad

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A BOUCHIKHI. Modeling of a DC glow discharge in a neon– xenon gas mixture at low pressure and with metastable atom densities[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2017, 19(9): 95403-095403. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/aa74ad

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Modeling of a DC glow discharge in a neon– xenon gas mixture at low pressure and with metastable atom densities

A BOUCHIKHI

University of Saïda, Faculty of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Saïda 20000, Algeria

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Received Date: March 14, 2017

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The physical properties of Ne–Xe DC glow discharges at low pressure are reported for a gap length of 1 cm for the first time in the literature. The model deals specifically with the first three moments of Boltzmann’s equation and includes the radiation processes and metastable atom densities. The spatio-temporal distributions of the electron and neon and xenon ion densities, the neon and xenon metastable atom densities, the electric potential and the electric field as well as the mean electron energy are presented at 1.5 Torr and 250 V. The current–voltage characteristic is shown at 3 Torr, and it is compared with previous work for pure neon gas. The model is validated theoretically and experimentally in the case of pure gas.
- BOLSIG+,
- Poisson’s equation,
- mixture gas,
- Blanc’s law

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