UV light is one of a number of emerging non-thermal food processing technologies that can
be used in a broad range of applications producing food products with longer shelf-life, more …

The design and practical applications of excilamps having a dielectric barrier and capacitive
structure and driven by nanosecond, high voltage pulses are described. A simple design …

Stark polarization spectroscopy is used to investigate the temporal evolution of the electric
field distribution in the cathode region of a nanosecond pulsed discharge in helium at 120 …

Narrowband UV and VUV excimer radiation can be generated in a variety of nonequilibrium
gas discharges: dielectric barrier discharges, microhollow cathode discharges, arrays of …

A 1-D model for the simulation of transition from glow microdischarge to arc discharge with a
thermionic cathode was built using COMSOL Multiphysics. The extended fluid model was …

The influence of the voltage rise rate on a nanosecond discharge in atmospheric pressure
helium is investigated. The experiment is performed with a parallel-plate discharge …

Modern physics of gas discharges increasingly uses physical kinetics for analysis of non-
equilibrium plasmas. The description of underlying physics at the kinetic level appears to be …

A dielectric barrier Xe discharge lamp producing vacuum-ultraviolet radiation with high
efficiency was investigated theoretically and experimentally. The cylindrical glass body of …

An argon–nitrogen gas mixture dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) excited by fast rise time
(∼ 20 ns) and slow rise time (∼ 100 ns) 3–5 kV high-voltage pulses was investigated in the …

Recently, an increase in use of micro-satellites constructed from commercial off the shelf
(COTS) components has developed, to address the large costs associated with designing …