U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Microhollow Cathode Discharge Excimer Lamps

该奖项支持卡尔·舍恩巴赫博士和一名博士后与埃尔兰根弗里德里希·亚历山大大学物理系的克劳斯·弗兰克合作。该合作将研究两个主题：稳态阶段多次平行放电的物理学，以及放电点火过程。这些研究成果对直流电、低压平板灯中准分子光源的开发具有一定的应用价值。直流放电的实验和建模研究将与埃尔兰根的点火相研究相结合，以加速平板准分子灯领域的研究，这种准分子灯提供了具有广泛应用的准单色光源。总的来说，这一联合努力将更好地理解空心阴极放电阵列的物理特性，提供关于单空心阴极放电和放电阵列的电击穿的信息，并确定电极材料和介电材料对微空心阴极放电性能的影响。

This award supports Dr. Karl Schoenbach and a postdoctoral student to collaborate with Klaus Frank of the Physics Department at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen. The collaboration will study two topics: the physics of multiple, parallel discharges in the steady-state phase, and the discharge ignition process. These studies have application to the development of excimer light sources in direct-current (DC), low- voltage, flat-panel lamps. Experimental and modeling studies on DC discharges will be combined with ignition-phase studies at Erlangen to accelerate research in the area of flat-panel excimer lamps, which provide quasi-monochromatic light sources with a wide range of applications. Overall, the combined effort will provide a better understanding of the physics of hollow-cathode discharge arrays, provide information on the electric breakdown in single hollow-cathode discharges and discharge arrays, and determine the effect of electrode materials and dielectrics on the performance of the microhollow cathode discharges.