Radiative Continuum of Molecular Hydrogen in a Diffuse Pulse-Periodic Discharge in Low-Pressure Humid Air
摘要
Broadband radiative continuum of low-temperature plasma is observed upon excitation by various types of discharges and electron beams of inert gases, hydrogen, deuterium, their mixtures, and mixtures of inert gases with halogens. This work demonstrates experimentally that upon excitation of humid air by a pulse-periodic streamer discharge with low specific powers, the plasma color changes from red, corresponding to the emission of 1+ nitrogen system, to white. This phenomenon was recorded with decreasing pressure and increasing discharge current density. It was found that a broadband continuum appears in the emission spectrum, which was attributed to