Some Considerations on the Microwave Electrodeless Discharge. Plasma Diagnostics in Argon, Helium or Nitrogen Atmospheres.

摘要

Microwave electrodeless discharges in enclosed quartz containers (electrodeless discharge lamps, EDL) are often utilized in optical spectroscopy as line sources for absorption and/or fluorescence measurements of atoms in flames and high temperature plasmas and in furnace-heated gases and of atoms vaporized into a cool gaseous environment from hot filaments. In recent years, there has been a great interest in EDLs as primary light sources in atomic fluorescence spectrometry (AFS).