- Author
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Smyth, K. C.
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Bentz, B. L.
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Bruhn, C. G.
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Harrison, W. W.
- Title
- Role of Penning Ionization of the Minor Species in a Neon Hollow Cathode Discharge.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
Virginia Univ., Charlottesville
- Journal
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Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Vol. 101,
797-799,
1979
- Keywords
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ionization
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lasers
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atomizing
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neon
- Identifiers
- cathode discharge; atomization
- Abstract
- Using a tunable dye laser, a neon hollow cathode discharge was irradiated at wavelengths corresponding to 1Sn-2Pn neon transitions, and thereby the neon metastable atom population was pertubed. At these wavelengths, changes were detected in both the voltage across the discharge and in the ion signals for the various neon species, as well as for minor (including sputtered) species in the discharge.