Abstract
A review of studies of thermodynamic processes in KrBr (207 nm), KrCl (222 nm), and XeBr (282 nm) barrier-discharge excilamps and XeBr (282 nm) and XeCl (222 nm) microwave-discharge excilamps is presented. Using various pressure gauges, it was experimentally shown that a pressure jump that occurs upon excilamp switching-on (-off) contains a fast (with a characteristic time of ∼100 ms) and a slow (∼100 s) component. The fast pressure-jump component is associated with gas heating during the discharge and allows evaluation of the fraction of the discharge power that is thermalized in the gas. From the analysis of the pressure decay after the jump, it follows that the gas is heated as a result of two processes: direct gas heating during the discharge (∼100 ms) and the energy dissipation of acoustic waves in the gas (∼10 ms). The slow component of the pressure jump is caused by the general heating of the excilamp and can be used to determine the fraction of the discharge power that is converted to thermal energy and to study various excilamp cooling modes.
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