Analysis of new electrical signals in respect to quantification of radio frequency glow discharge emission spectrometry

Radio frequency glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy (RF-GD-OES) is routinely used for the chemical analysis of solid samples. For quantification two independent electrical signals of the discharge are required. These are provided in real time by the glow discharge source with integrated voltage and current sensors. The available time-dependent voltage and current must be reduced. For this purpose a plasma equivalent circuit is used. It is shown that the cathode voltage and active cathode current describe the sputtering and excitation well. Measuring standard reference materials at constant cathode voltage and cathode current results in linear calibration curves.     

古油层和残余油层的定量颗粒荧光响应

利用定量颗粒荧光(QGF和QGF-E)技术研究了古油层和残余油层的定量颗粒荧光响应。结果表明,古油层与现今油层具有很强的QGF荧光响应,利用QGF荧光响应识别出TZ421井存在100 m古油层,表明早期油气充注规模大,但后期发生泄漏,导致油水界面上升到现今的3 620 m。利用QGF-E荧光响应识别出60m残余油层,说明发生多期古油层泄漏,第一期泄漏使油水界面上升到残余油水界面(3 680 m),第二期泄漏发生在近期,形成现今油水界面。现今凝析气层中的强QGF荧光响应表明凝析气顶形成于最后一期天然气充注。     

Growth of the spark current at the breakdown of short vacuum gaps at steady voltage

The growth time of the spark current at the time of breakdown in vacuum at the constant voltage and pressure existing during this period was investigated with high time resolution. It was shown that, as in the case of a pulsed breakdown: 1) the growth time t_c of the current increases in proportion to the length d of the gap and the ratio d/t_c is 2.5·10⁶ cm/sec; 2) the transition to a rapid rate of current growth (di/dt > 10⁸ A/sec) takes place in 1–3 nsec; 3) during the period of current growth, x-ray radiation appears and a transfer of anode material to the cathode is observed. These results serve as evidence that the origin of current growth is connected with the appearance of efficient electron sources on the cathode. These, as in the case of pulsed breakdowns, are evidently cathode flares, the formation of which has an explosive character and can be identified with the act of breakdown initiation. In essence this event does not change with the rate at which voltage is supplied across the gap and consists of the explosive disintegration of emitting microspikes on the cathode. The appearance of cathode flares indicates the start of an irreversible breakdown of vacuum insulation. The emergence of a burst of x-rays and the erosion of the anode are explained by the action on the anode of a powerful stream of electrons that are emitted from the cathode flares, providing the spark current.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii Fizika, No. 9, pp. 93–97, September, 1971.The authors thank G. A. Mesyats for his constant attention to the work.     

Kinetics of Formation of an Oxide Film on the Surface of the Cathode in an Atmospheric-Pressure Glow Discharge in Helium

The kinetics of formation of an oxide film on the surface of the cathode of an atmospheric-pressure glow discharge in helium has been investigated by the method of laser reflectometry. It has been established that the film is formed at a cathode temperature exceeding 550 K, and in 200 sec from the time of discharge initiation at a current of 1 A it becomes thicker than 1 m. The film consists of several concentric zones. For each of these zones, a change in time of the directional hemispherical coefficient of reflection at a wavelength of 0.63 m was determined. It is shown that the formation of an oxide film on the cathode surface leads to an increase in the cathode drop.     

The initial transient of natural convection during copper electrolysis in the presence of an opposing Lorentz force: Current dependence

Magnetic fields are well-established in electrochemistry as an attractive tool to improve both the quality of the deposit as well as the deposition rate. The key mechanism is a mass transfer enhancement by Lorentz-force-driven convection. However, during electrolysis this convection interacts with buoyancy-driven convection, which arises from concentration differences, in a sometimes intriguing way. In the case of a Lorentz force opposing buoyancy, this is due to the growth of a bubble-like zone of less-concentrated cupric ion solution at the lower part of the vertical cathode when copper electrolysis is performed. If buoyancy is strong enough to compete with the Lorentz force, this zone rises along the cathode and causes surprisingly unsteady initial transient behaviour. We explore this initial transient under galvanostatic conditions by analyzing the development of the concentration and velocity boundary layers obtained by Mach-Zehnder interferometry and particle image velocimetry. Particular attention is also paid to higher current densities above the limiting current, obtained from potentiodynamic measurements, at which a chaotic advection takes place. The results are compared by scaling analysis.     

Pulse properties of an electronic emitter with a plasma limited by a boundary ionic layer

Results of the investigation of the pulse control of an electronic emitter with a plasma limited to a boundary ionic layer are presented. The control of the emitter current was realized by modulating the plasma area by means of varying the extent of the ionic layer in the emission channel. It is shown that the time for the formation of the front and trailing edge of the current pulse depends on the time for establishing a stationary distribution of ions in the boundary layer. For an electronic emitter, based on a reflective discharge with a field cathode, this time is of about 10^–8 sec. The experimental setup is described, and the results obtained in the pulse control of an emitter current through modulation of the emission area are presented.Institute of Automated Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Tomsk. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 28–33, May, 1992.     

Counterion-hopping along the backbone of single-stranded DNA in nanometer pores: a mechanism for current conduction

Molecular dynamics calculations are performed to investigate ionic current conduction through nanopores in the presence of single-stranded DNA. We find the counterions to be strongly attracted to the phosphate groups of the DNA, with resident time on the order of nanoseconds, while coions are strongly excluded. The diffusion constant of the counterions is calculated and used to estimate the ionic current through the pore, which gives a similar magnitude as in experiment. The results suggest a counterion-hopping mechanism along the ssDNA backbone in the current conduction through nanopores.     

Curvature-dependent elastic properties of liquid-ordered domains result in inverted domain sorting on uniaxially compressed vesicles

Using a coarse-grained molecular model we study the spatial distribution of lipid domains on a 20-nm-sized vesicle. The lipid mixture laterally phase separates into a raftlike, liquid-ordered (l(o)) phase and a liquid-disordered phase. As we uniaxially compress the mixed vesicle keeping the enclosed volume constant, we impart tension onto the membrane. The vesicle adopts a barrel shape, which is composed of two flat contact zones and a curved edge. The l(o) domain, which exhibits a higher bending rigidity, segregates to the highly curved edge. This inverted domain sorting switches to normal domain sorting, where the l(o) domain prefers the flat contact zone, when we release the contents of the vesicle. We rationalize this domain sorting by a pronounced reduction of the bending rigidity and area compressibility of the l(o) phase upon bending.     

Peculiarities of interaction of the cathode stream with anodevapors in a vacuum arc

A one-dimensional model of the quasi-stationary vacuum arc plasma zone is considered in terms of a three-liquid hydrodynamics approximation. It is supposed that atoms evaporated from the anode are ionized in a narrow near-anode zone, slow ions are rapidly maxwellized in the result of Coulomb collisions, ion braking length of the cathode stream may be comparable with a gap size, i.e., the cathode stream breaking is important. Outside the narrow near-electrode zones slow anode and rapid cathode ion flows are maintained, the electron thermal conductivity equalizes the electron temperature     

空心阴极灯激发的微波等离子体炬原子/离子荧光光谱研究--钙的原子/离子荧光光谱

用强短脉冲供电技术的空心阴极灯作激发源、微波等离子体炬作原子／离子化器，建立了原子／离子荧光光谱实验装置。详细研究了微波等离子体功率、观察高度、空心阴极灯电流等因素对原子／离子荧光信号强度的影响，测量了系统对Ca的原子／离子荧光光谱的检出限。     

Contact temperature and erosion in high-current diffuse vacuum arcson axial magnetic field contacts

We have investigated the surface heating effects of drawn vacuum arcs for several industrial designs of axial magnetic field (AMF) contacts, using near infrared (IR) photography of the Cu-Cr arcing surfaces with an image-intensified charge-coupled device (CCD) camera and an IR pyrometer. This enables detailed contact temperature mapping immediately after a half-cycle of arc current. The very homogeneous temperature distribution observed at current zero stands in contrast to the visually nonhomogeneous high-current diffuse arc, which was studied in separately reported experiments using high-speed digital photography and arc voltage measurements. The peak temperature at current zero increased relatively linearly with the peak current I_P, and reached well beyond the melting range. We combine the temperature maps with a heating model to determine the thermal sheath thickness after arcing and its dependence on I_P. The results suggest that near the interruption limit of AMF contacts, the interaction of the stable high-current arc with the anode and cathode is dominated by processes induced by flowing liquid metal, which redistributes the heat input from the axially concentrated arc over most of the contact surface. Furthermore, the flow of liquid metal off the cathode and anode faces contributes to the overall contact erosion     

基于聚多巴胺/氧化锌复合阴极缓冲层的倒置聚合物太阳能电池的研究

利用多巴胺氧化自聚合形成聚多巴胺(PDA)与ZnO结合形成PDA/ZnO复合阴极缓冲层,制备了以P3HT:PC_(61)BM为活性层的倒置结构聚合物太阳能电池,通过改变PDA的自聚合时间来分析复合阴极缓冲层对器件性能的影响.实验发现,随着PDA的自聚合时间的增加,聚合物太阳能电池的光电转换效率先增大后减小,当自聚合时间为10 min时,相应器件光伏性能达到最优值,其开路电压V_(OC)为0.66 V,短路电流密度J_(SC)为9.70 mA/cm~2,填充因子FF为68.06%,光电转换效率PCE为4.35%.器件性能改善的原因是由于PDA/ZnO复合阴极缓冲层减小了ZnO与ITO之间的接触电阻,同时PDA中存在大量的氨基有利于倒置太阳能电池阴极对电子的收集.     

淬火天然与合成紫黄晶显微中红外光谱研究

紫黄晶是珍贵的水晶变种，其紫-黄色区域分别具有特征的中红外吸收光谱，在不同温度具有不同变化规律，这些规律无法在单次、单点实验中加以总结。实验通过热处理和显微红外光谱技术，对不同温度淬火紫黄晶的紫-黄色区进行线扫描，分析一系列温度、空间变化下的中红外光谱，实验表明水对于紫黄晶的颜色影响不大，在加热过程中谱线会发生规律性变化。紫色区3 585和3 614 cm-1尖锐峰、3 400 cm-1附近宽泛峰同时变化表明宝石在受热过程以结构水变化为主，而受热后紫色区的特征峰减弱及黄区特征峰增强的现象可能与结构水中H+或其他阳离子的移动有关。同时发现对于热处理产生的黄晶，中红外光谱仍保持紫晶特征吸收光谱。     

Ion current collected at various distances and argon backgroundpressures in a copper vacuum arc

The ion current collected by a probe biased at the cathode potential and located behind an annular anode of a vacuum arc is measured as a function of distance to the cathode and background argon pressure. The arc is formed between a circular Cu cathode and an annular anode. Arc current is 170 A, and the arc duration is 0.9 s. The arc is ignited by momentary contact of a movable W trigger rod (held at anode potential) with the cathode. Arc voltage, arc current, and ion current are measured using an analog data acquisition card and a personal computer. Arc voltage and arc current values are stable during the arc and their normalized standard deviation is less than 0.07. Ion current is noisy and fluctuates during the arc with a normalized standard deviation that varies from 0.5 at p<0.1 torr up to more than 1.5 at p>1 torr     

Fluid Simulation of the Conduction Phase of the Plasma Erosion Opening Switch

The conduction phase of the plasma erosion opening switch (PEOS) is studied using a 1?-D electromagnetic two-fluid code. The focus of this work is on understanding how two effects, a current-limiting model of electron emission, and the magnetic insulation of electrons at the cathode, determine current conduction in the plasma. Simulations are performed in the parameter regimes of the Gamble I, POP, and PBFA II pulsed power generators, and previous low-density, short-rise time simulations of the PEOS. Fluid code results are compared to a 1-D analytic theory and to the Gamble I and POP experiments. Good agreement between theory and simulation, but mixed agreement between simulation and experiment is found. Experimental B-field measurements on POP show weaker j × B compression than the simulation. Current penetration and plasma current channels qualitatively similar to experimental observation are found in the Gamble I regime. However, magnetic insulation of electrons emitted from the cathode bunches the electron flow into narrower current channels than observed experimentally. In several cases, the presence of an electron-scattering or energy-loss mechanism near the cathode must be invoked to overcome magnetic insulation and widen the current channels.     

A hollow cathode bismuth ion laser

cw laser oscillations of Bi II at 680.9, 660.0, and 571.9 nm have been achieved for the first time by using a bismuth hollow cathode discharge. In addition, laser oscillations of Bi I at 1.1711 m in the afterglow were observed. The ionic laser lines are excited by Penning ionization. The atomic line is produced by recombination of the bismuth ions and lowenergy electrons in the afterglow.     

V color centers in electrolytically colored hydroxyl-doped sodium chloride crystals

Hydroxyl-doped sodium chloride crystals were successfully colored electrolytically by using pointed anode and flat cathode at various temperatures and under various electric field strengths. V₂ and V₃ color centers were produced in the colored crystals. Current-time curves for the electrolytic colorations were given, and activation energy for the V₂ and V₃ color center migration was determined. Production of the V₂ and V₃ color centers and formation of current zones for the electrolytic colorations of the hydroxyl-doped sodium chloride crystals are explained.     

The Role of Carbonaceous Particles in Low Current Arc Duration Enhancment. II. Arcs Occurring on Approach of Electrodes

Part per million concentrations of some organic vapors in telephone relay environments are known to produce carbonaceous particles on arcing contact surfaces. Enhanced arcing then occurs and the reliability and contact lifetime of the relays is impaired. The enhancement of break arcs due to the presence of carbonaceous particles has been described in paper I. Break Arcs.6 In this present paper the enhancement of arcs occurring on approach of electrodes (make arcs) is discussed and is thought to be due to the injection of plasmas formed by the electronic and ionic bombardment of carbon particles on the anode and cathode respectively. The plasmas formed from these particles can then be related to arc-duration enhancement. The observation that under `activated' conditions no anode-type arcs exist but those that form are all of the cathode variety, can also be explained by the model. A calculation of the amount of carbon required to fully activate a 10-2 cm2 contact area yields 6.3 × 10-8 gm in agreement with values of other workers.     

Cathode processes in free burning and stabilized by axial magneticfield vacuum arcs

Collective behavior of the cathode spots (CS) has been investigated in free burning and stabilized by axial magnetic field (AMF) vacuum arcs. Experiments carried out proved previously discovered phenomenon of CS group formation in free burning arc to be a general phenomenon for a short high-current vacuum arc. The dependency of CS group size in the developed are on arc current for different contact materials has been analyzed. Application of AMF with even relatively low intensity strongly affects on cathode processes. In short arcs, it hinders formation of the CS group and consequently reduces thermal stress applied to the electrodes. It has been revealed that high current vacuum arc under the action of AMF can exist only at current densities exceeding certain minimal value that depends on AMF intensity, contact gap, and does not depend on current itself. The dependency of this minimal (or normal) current density on AMF intensity has been studied for short and long vacuum arcs. A qualitative model of the cathode spot dynamics has also been proposed     

Investigation of unstable motion characteristics of vacuum arc cathode spots between transverse magnetic field contacts

With the improvement of the current level of power grids, the requirements of the opening level of the vacuum switches are also increasing. Vacuum arc cathode spots provide steam and electrons and, to a certain extent, determine the opening capacity of the vacuum switch. In this paper, a vacuum arc cathode spot research platform based on the de-mountable vacuum chamber is constructed. The characteristics of the vacuum arc cathode spots under the transverse magnetic field (TMF) contacts are assessed by a high-speed charge coupled device. The experimental results show that the cathode spot diffusion process can be divided into three processes through cathode spot distribution, arc voltage and current: initial diffusion stage of cathode spots, unstable motion stage of cathode spots, and extinguishing stage. The motion mode of cathode spots during unstable motion stage can be divided into cathode spots group stagnation (CSGS) to multi-cathode jet (MCJ) switch mode, cathode spots group motion (CSGM) to MCJ switch mode, CSGM mode, and MCJ mode. The effects of peak current and contact diameter on unstable motion mode were analysed.