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Electrodeless Gas Discharges for Lighting

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Advanced Technologies Based on Wave and Beam Generated Plasmas

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASHT,volume 67))

Abstract

Gas discharges are used for a variety of lighting applications which cover a wide range of plasma parameters. Examples can be found in each of the major classifications of industrial plasmas; low pressure, non-LTE discharges (eg. fluorescent lamps); thermal or LTE plasmas (eg. HID lamps); and “non-thermal” plasmas (barrier discharge lamps). In the last decade, considerable progress has been made in the development of new fluorescent and HID lamps in which the discharges are maintained by high frequency (250 kHz to 2.45 GHz) electromagnetic fields produced outside the discharge — so-called “electrodeless” lamps [1–3]. These developments, and the underlying physics on which they are based, form the basis of this paper.

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Lister, G.G. (1999). Electrodeless Gas Discharges for Lighting. In: Schlüter, H., Shivarova, A. (eds) Advanced Technologies Based on Wave and Beam Generated Plasmas. NATO ASI Series, vol 67. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0633-9_3

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