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Fundamentals of undervoltage breakdown through the Townsend mechanism.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fundamentals of undervoltage breakdown through the Townsend mechanism./
Author:	Cooley, James E.
Description:	140 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Edgar Y. Choueiri.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-04B.
Subject:	Engineering, Aerospace. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3308436
ISBN:	9780549577171

Fundamentals of undervoltage breakdown through the Townsend mechanism.
Cooley, James E.

Fundamentals of undervoltage breakdown through the Townsend mechanism. - 140 p.

Adviser: Edgar Y. Choueiri.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2008.

The conditions under which an externally supplied pulse of electrons will induce breakdown in an undervoltaged, low-gain, DC discharge gap are experimentally and theoretically explored. The phenomenon is relevant to fundamental understanding of breakdown physics, to switching applications such as triggered spark gaps and discharge initiation in pulsed-plasma thrusters, and to gas-avalanche particle counters.

ISBN: 9780549577171Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018395
Engineering, Aerospace.

Fundamentals of undervoltage breakdown through the Townsend mechanism.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2008.
520 $a The conditions under which an externally supplied pulse of electrons will induce breakdown in an undervoltaged, low-gain, DC discharge gap are experimentally and theoretically explored. The phenomenon is relevant to fundamental understanding of breakdown physics, to switching applications such as triggered spark gaps and discharge initiation in pulsed-plasma thrusters, and to gas-avalanche particle counters.
520 $a A dimensionless theoretical description of the phenomenon is formulated and solved numerically. It is found that a significant fraction of the charge on the plates must be injected for breakdown to be achieved at low avalanche-ionization gain, when an electron undergoes fewer than approximately 10 ionizing collisions during one gap transit. It is also found that fewer injected electrons are required as the gain due to electron-impact ionization (alpha process) is increased, or as the sensitivity of the alpha process to electric field is enhanced by decreasing the reduced electric field (electric field divided by pressure, E/p).
520 $a A predicted insensitivity to ion mobility implies that breakdown is determined during the first electron avalanche when space charge distortion is greatest. A dimensionless, theoretical study of the development of this avalanche reveals a critical value of the reduced electric field to be the value at the Paschen curve minimum divided by 1.6. Below this value, the net result of the electric field distortion is to increase ionization for subsequent avalanches, making undervoltage breakdown possible. Above this value, ionization for subsequent avalanches will be suppressed and undervoltage breakdown is not possible.
520 $a Using an experimental apparatus in which ultraviolet laser pulses are directed onto a photo-emissive cathode of a parallel-plate discharge gap, it is found that undervoltage breakdown can occur through a Townsend-like mechanism through the buildup of successively larger avalanche generations. The minimum number of injected electrons required to achieve breakdown is measured in argon at pd values of 3-10 Torr-m. The required electron pulse magnitude was found to scale inversely with pressure and voltage in this parameter range. When higher-power infrared laser pulses were used to heat the cathode surface, a faster, streamer-like breakdown mechanism was occasionally observed.
520 $a As an example application, an investigation into the requirements for initiating discharges in Gas-fed Pulsed Plasma Thrusters (GFPPTs) is conducted. Theoretical investigations based on order-of-magnitude characterizations of previous GFPPT designs reveal that high-conductivity arc discharges are required for critically-damped matching of circuit components, and that relatively fast streamer breakdown is preferable to minimize delay between triggering and current sheet formation. The faster breakdown mechanism observed in the experiments demonstrates that such a discharge process can occur. However, in the parameter space occupied by most thrusters, achieving the phenomenon by way of a space charge distortion caused purely by an electron pulse should not be possible. Either a transient change in the distribution of gas density, through ablation or desorption, or a thruster design that occupies a different parameter space, such as one that uses higher mass bits, higher voltages, or smaller electrode spacing, is required for undervoltage breakdown to occur.
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