Abstract: | Survey emission spectra in the region of 190–600 nm and time and service-life characteristics of a transverse nanosecond discharge
in He/Ar/CF2Cl2(CCl4) mixtures at a pressure of 10–100 kPa are investigated. In the emission spectra, excited products of the decomposition of
freons—C2(A−X), CN(B−X), Cl
2
*
, C*, Cl*, and Cl+*— and the emission of ArF at λ=193 nm are revealed. The emissions of Cl
2
*
at λ=258 nm and ArF at λ=193 nm were the most intense. The discharge in the He/Ar/CF2Cl2 mixture is a multiwave emission source with λ=258 nm Cl
2
*
193 nm ArF, and probably, 175 nm Arcl. It is of interest for applications in UV-VUV-range pulse photometry. The duration
of the emission on Cl
2
*
, ArF, ArI, ClI, and ClII transitions in the discharge in the Ar/CF2Cl2 mixture (P=10–20 kPa) was 200–300 nsec. With adding He and increasing pressure to 100 kPa the duration of the emission decreased
by a factor of 1.5–2. The basic mechanisms of the formation of Cl2, ArF, and CN(B) molecules in the transverse-discharge plasma are considered.
Uzhgorod State University, 46, Pidgirna Str., Uzhgorod, 294000, Ukraine. Translated from Zhurnal. Prikladnoi Spektroskopii,
Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 241–246, March–April, 1999. |