Abstract
The results of the measurement and simulation of electrical characteristics of neon dc discharge are presented. These results have been obtained in the discharge cooled to the temperature of liquid nitrogen (77 K). The experiments were carried out at a neon pressure of 18–187 Pa and a discharge current of 0.01–3.5 mA. Cooling in the subnormal discharge mode at a constant value of discharge current led to a change in the discharge mode. When cooled, the electric field in the positive column and at the boundary of the transition to the normal discharge increased, and the reduced electric field decreased in all the investigated ranges of discharge current, pressure and neon concentration. The simulation of the positive column, based on the diffusion-drift (fluid) model, has shown that the input in the ionization of processes involving excited atoms increases with decreasing discharge temperature.
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