Low-Temperature Rare-Gas Stationary Afterglows

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter describes the low-temperature rare-gas stationary afterglows. Afterglows are particularly well suited to study of reactions involving excited or ionized atoms molecules at thermal energies. Stationary afterglows temperatures between cryogenic and room temperature has substantially progressed in last few years. Energy stored long-lived species is slowly released during afterglow, producing electron-ion pairs, that large kinetic energy these electrons plays a role heating bulk electron gas. consequence fact rare gases chemically reacting; Penning Hornbeck–Molnar processes may some sense be thought as form chemiionization. The continuity equation, balance metastable equation usually set closely coupled nonlinear, second-order, partial differential equations. In addition, many which have been put forward account for experimental observations still not completely elucidated, much remains done order understand precisely what really happens