| Abstract: | This paper presents a review of the principal publications devoted to the study of the spontaneous radiation sources operating in the uv region and discusses the properties of a low-pressure glow discharge in binary mixtures of inert gases with halides. It has been demonstrated that for variation of the excitation parameters over a wide range more than 10% emission efficiencies are realized for exciplex molecules and thatXeCl * andKrCl * molecules are formed in the main by the harpoon reaction. The current-voltage characteristics of glow discharges in cylindrical, coaxial, and planar excilamps and the parameters of the radiation ofXeCl *,KrCl *, andXeF * molecules generated on excitation of inert-gas-halide mixtures by normal and high-voltage glow discharges are presented. It is pointed out that low-pressure glow-discharge excilamps enable one to use simple power supplies. Institute of High Current Electronics. Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 6, pp. 50–66, June, 1999. |
