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Plasma
Cathode erosion in a gas arc discharge at the threshold currents
A. M. Murzakaev Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg
Abstract:
The results of experimental studies of the erosion rate of high-purity tungsten cathodes after pulsed arc discharges in a pure oil-free ultrahigh vacuum and in gases of various purities are reported. The erosion rate in high-purity argon does not change compared to the rate of erosion of electrodes in a pure oil-free vacuum. The rate of erosion in “technical” argon is 10% less than the rate of erosion of electrodes in an oil-free vacuum. The rate of erosion in “technical” nitrogen is 15–35% less than the rate of erosion of electrodes in vacuum. Particle sizes formed in gas arcs are smaller than those formed in vacuum arcs.
Keywords:
arc in gas, erosion rate, ecton mechanism, particles, electron microscopy.
Received: 20.04.2021 Revised: 16.06.2021 Accepted: 17.06.2021
Citation:
A. M. Murzakaev, “Cathode erosion in a gas arc discharge at the threshold currents”, Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 91:11 (2021), 1649–1654
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