General Information on Pseudospark
Historical background
In the late 1950's J. Chritiansen worked on parallel plate avalancehe counters for nuclear phyusic experiments. Near the Paschen minimum, anomalous sparks at the edge zones of these counters resulted in erratic failures. Twenty years later he reestablished the research in this almost forgotten effect. quote from K. Frank and J. Christiansen, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 17, 748 (1989).
In 1979, J. Christiansen and C. Shultheiss published a paper Production of high current particle beams by low pressure spark discharges, in Z. Phys. A 290, 35 (1979). In this paper, a low pressure fast discharge phenomenon between a hollow cathode and an anode is described and named as pseudo-spark.
Important meetings on the pseudospark
- 3rd International Workshop on Transient Hollow Cathode Discharge Phenomenon (THCDP 94) September 14-16,1994, Paris, France.
- WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Gaseous and Electrode Phenomena in Diffuse High Current Density Discharges, November 2-6, 1992, Bad Honnef, Germany.
- 2nd International Workshop on Transient Hollow Cathode Discharge Phenomenon (THCDP 92) 1992, Paris, France.
- International Workshop on Transient Hollow Cathode Discharge Phenomenon (THCDP 90) 1990, Paris, France.
- NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Physics and Applications of Hollow Glow Switches, July 17-21, 1989, Lillehamma, Norway.
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