Abstract

Microwave-driven electrodeless ultraviolet (UV) lamps have the advantages of high efficiency and high power. However, the conventional microwave system is slightly oversized, which restricts the use of the lamp in a narrow space. A miniaturized microwave-driven electrodeless UV lamp based on a coaxial slot antenna was developed in this study. First, the structure of slots was optimized using a finite-difference time-domain algorithm such that high efficiency of radiated energy could be achieved. Second, a complex model based on the Drude model and the electromagnetic theory was established to simulate the interaction between the microwave and UV lamps. The efficiency and uniformity of the UV lamps were analyzed. Finally, an experimental system was built, and the computed results agreed well with the simulation results. The efficiency of the miniaturized microwave-driven electrodeless UV lamp reached 91.8%.

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