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JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages 502-512Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b618035c
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It is generally recognized that excited level populations and, hence, optical emission intensities in pulsed glow discharges exhibit a peak upon pulse termination, i.e., in the so-called afterglow. This afterpeak formation is attributed in many papers to electron-ion recombination, but up to now this hypothesis could not be confirmed quantitatively by numerical modelling, because of too low electron and ion number densities and recombination rate coefficients. In the present paper, we show the calculation results of a model, which includes also Ar-2(+) ions, beside the Art ions, and which takes into account the thermalization of the electrons upon pulse termination, yielding higher recombination rate coefficients. The role of electron-Ar-2(+) dissociative recombination and electron-Ar+ three-body recombination as afterpeak formation mechanisms is investigated. Our study clearly shows the important role of Ar-2(+) ions and dissociative recombination in the afterpeak formation in the afterglow of pulsed discharges.
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