Title :
Gas discharges at low temperatures: deductions from breakdown characteristics of hydrogen at subatmospheric pressure
Author_Institution :
Central Electricity Research Laboratories, Electrical Engineering Division, Leatherhead, UK
Abstract :
Measurements have been made of the breakdown voltage of a gas discharge in hydrogen with niobium electrodes for pressure and temperature ranges of 103¿105 Nm¿2 and 25¿300 K, respectively. It is deduced that temperature has little influence on the values of Townsend´s primary- and secondary-ionisation coefficients.
Keywords :
discharges (electric); electric breakdown; electric breakdown of gases; hydrogen neutral molecules; breakdown voltage; gas discharge in hydrogen; liquid helium; liquid nitrogen; low temperatures; niobium electrodes;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19710418
