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- Title
Breakdown in Air in a Rising Microwave Field.
- Authors
Barashenkov, V. S.; Grachev, L. P.; Esakov, I. I.; Kostenko, B. F.; Khodataev, K. V.; Yur’ev, M. Z.
- Abstract
Results are presented from studies of a high-pressure electrodeless breakdown in air at the focus of a standing wave in a high-Q quasi-optical two-mirror resonator pumped by single microwave pulses. In the experiment, the breakdown occurred at the front of the pulse of the resonator field. The breakdown field substantially exceeded the critical level and, under fixed conditions, showed a scatter from pulse to pulse. It is shown that the experimentally found excess in the threshold breakdown field over the critical level is due to the fact that the resonator field increases as a discharge plasmoid forms during breakdown and that the appearance of an electron initiating breakdown in a gas is a random event.
- Subjects
MICROWAVE plasmas; ELECTRIC breakdown
- Publication
Technical Physics, 2000, Vol 45, Issue 10, p1265
- ISSN
1063-7842
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/1.1318961