Nanosecond-Pulse Breakdown in Gases
- 13 September 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 139 (6A), A1796-A1804
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.139.a1796
Abstract
A theory describing the formative period of breakdown in gases following the sudden application of a dc electric field has been developed and applied to the design of experiments to measure lag times in nine gases. It is shown analytically that under certain conditions pulsed-dc and pulsed-microwave breakdown are directly comparable. A pulsed-dc experimental system is described which permits measurements of the formative period over a wide range of applied field, gas pressure, and gap space. For those gases where sufficient basic data are available, theoretical and experimental results are in good agreement.Keywords
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