Title :
Control of the UV emission of an excimer lamp by means of a current-mode power supply
Author :
Dìez, Rafael ; Piquet, Hubert ; Bhosle, Sounil
Author_Institution :
LAPLACE (Lab. Plasma et Conversion d´´Energie), Univ. de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Abstract :
The UV power, emitted by a XeCl Dielectric Barrier Discharge exciplex lamp, is shown, on the basis of causality analysis, to be controllable by the current supplied to the lamp. Experimentally, the UV radiation is demonstrated to be proportional to the current injected into the gas. A current-mode converter operating in discontinuous current mode controls in a direct form the amplitude and duration of the pulsed UV power radiated by the lamp.
Keywords :
current-mode circuits; discharge lamps; excimers; lighting control; power supplies to apparatus; xenon compounds; UV emission; XeCl; causality analysis; current-mode power supply; dielectric barrier discharge excimer lamp; discontinuous current mode; Current supplies; Dielectrics; Lamps; Light emitting diodes; Plasmas; Power engineering and energy; Power supplies; Pulsed power supplies; Uninterruptible power systems; Voltage control;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics, 2009. IECON '09. 35th Annual Conference of IEEE
Conference_Location :
Porto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4648-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1553-572X
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2009.5415172
