Influence of secondary-electron emission from MgO surfaces on voltage-breakdown curves in Penning mixtures for insulated-electrode discharges
- 1 November 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 48 (11), 4754-4759
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.323490
Abstract
Voltage‐breakdown curves in a Ne+0.1% Ar Penning mixture for insulated‐electrode discharges are strongly influenced by changes in the surface properties of a deposited MgO cathode. A model has been developed to calculate an effective secondary‐electron‐emission coefficient γ in Penning mixtures as a function of the insulator‐energy‐band parameters. Incorporation of the calculated γ into the breakdown criterion results in good agreement between calculated and measured voltage‐breakdown curves for differently prepared MgO cathode surfaces. The calculated results show that the value of γ for argon ions depends on the state of the MgO surface, and this occurs through a change in the width of the band gap of MgO. The results also show that a nonzero value of γ (Ar+) significantly lowers the breakdown voltages and changes the shape of the breakdown curves at higher values of P0d.Keywords
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