| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L90606/01 |
| Title: |
STUDY AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ULTRAVIOLET SOURCES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO LOW TEMPERATUTRE PHOTO-REACTION |
| Principal Investigator: |
Boyd, Professor I |
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| Department: |
Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
UCL |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 January 1998 |
Ends: |
31 December 2000 |
Value (£): |
243,927
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Materials Processing |
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Many, if not all of the currently available UV and VUV sources exhibit recognised limitations associated with one or more of the following: output flex, lifetime, cost, flexibility, environmental problems, and complexity. Consequently, there is an acknowledged desire for cheap, large area, multi-wavelength, efficient UV sources. This project aims to explore the properties and uses of new silent dielectric barrier discharge lamps incorporating the excimer excitation scheme to general several UV and VUV wavelengths, which offer all of the above properties. The wavelengths to be explored range from the deep UV (126nm), the rarely achievable 222nm, and 253nm. The latter is of most significant importance in that the excimer generated is iodine-based and close to the KrF and Hg lamp outputs. It thus dispenses with the need for fluorine or mercury, which introduce many handling, environmental, safety and lamp construction problems, but to date has not been investigated as a realistic alternative. After isolating the most important operating parameters and optimising the efficiency and output of these systems, several low temperature applications will be explored.
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