DBD excimer lamp power supply with fully controlled operating conditions

Author

Florez, David ; Diez, Rafael ; Hay, Karim ; Piquet, Hubert

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Pontificia Univ. Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia

fYear

2012

fDate

24-26 May 2012

Firstpage

1346

Lastpage

1352

Abstract

Based on causality analysis relying on the capacitive nature of the Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) excimer lamps, a converter that allows the variation of the electrical power injected to a KrCl excimer lamp is designed and implemented. This converter is capable of controlling the lamp current by means of the three degrees of freedom (D.O.F.) of a square shape: amplitude, duty cycle and frequency. It has been conceived for the study of the UV radiation of DBD lamps; consequently, the UV power measurements for the DBD excilamp under different combinations of these three D.O.F., are presented and analyzed.

Keywords

electric current control; excimer lasers; krypton compounds; lamps; power measurement; ultraviolet sources; DBD excimer lamp power supply; DOF; KrCl; KrCl excimer lamp; UV power measurement; UV radiation; converter; degrees of freedom; dielectric barrier discharge; duty cycle; electrical power; lamp current control; square shape amplitude; square shape frequency; Capacitance; Dielectrics; Hysteresis; Inductance; Inverters; Topology; Voltage control; DBD; current control; excimer; ultra-violet;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (OPTIM), 2012 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Brasov

ISSN

1842-0133

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1650-7

Electronic_ISBN

1842-0133

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OPTIM.2012.6231836

Filename

6231836