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Streamers at the Subnanosecond Breakdown of Argon and Nitrogen in Nonuniform Electric Field at Both Polarities

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An ICCD camera was used to study plasma glow at the stage of the streamer (ionization wave) formation in the tip–plane gap with a length of 3 mm filled with argon or nitrogen at a pressure of 12.5–400 kPa. Positive and negative nanosecond voltage pulses were applied across the gap. Images of streamer were obtained at different time at its propagation along the gap. A streak-camera equipped with a spectrometer was used to measure time evolution of the radiation intensity of nitrogen molecules at a wavelength of 337.1 nm in several regions along the gap at the negative polarity. Average streamer velocity (1.8 cm/ns) was estimated from experimental data at atmospheric pressure of nitrogen. Amplitude–time characteristics of voltage, discharge current and the current of runaway electron beam behind the aluminum-foil anode with a thickness of 10 μm were measured. Reasons for a diffuse discharge under the given experimental conditions were discussed.

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  1. Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, 634055, Russia

    D. V. Beloplotov, M. I. Lomaev, D. A. Sorokin & V. F. Tarasenko

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    D. V. Beloplotov, M. I. Lomaev, D. A. Sorokin & V. F. Tarasenko

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Original Russian Text © D.V. Beloplotov, M.I. Lomaev, D.A. Sorokin, V.F. Tarasenko, 2018, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2018, Vol. 88, No. 6, pp. 819–826.

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Beloplotov, D.V., Lomaev, M.I., Sorokin, D.A. et al. Streamers at the Subnanosecond Breakdown of Argon and Nitrogen in Nonuniform Electric Field at Both Polarities. Tech. Phys. 63, 793–800 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784218060063

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