Paschen's law studies in cold gases

Massarczyk, Ralph; Chu, Pinghan; Dugger, Charles; Elliott, Steven Ray; Rielage, Keith Robert; Xu, Wenqin

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/06/P06019

Title: Paschen's law studies in cold gases

Journal Article · Tue Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Journal of Instrumentation

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/06/P06019· OSTI ID:1473795

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Here, the break-through voltage behavior over small gaps has been investigated for differing gap distances, gas pressures, and gas temperatures in nitrogen, neon, argon and xenon gases. A deviation from Paschen's law at micro gap distances has been found. At lower temperatures, a significant shift of the curve relative to the results at room temperature was observed. This behavior can be explained by combining Paschen's law and the ideal gas law.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

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OSTI ID:: 1473795

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-20079

Journal Information:: Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 12, Issue 06; ISSN 1748-0221

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