NDLI: Modeling near-cathode plasma layer on contacts of vacuum arcs

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Author	Almeida, N.A. Benilov, M.S. Benilova, L.G. Hartmann, W. Wenzel, N.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. de Fis., Univ. da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal (Almeida, N.A.; Benilov, M.S.; Benilova, L.G.) \|\| Corp. Technol., Siemens A G, Erlangen, Germany (Hartmann, W.; Wenzel, N.)
Abstract	Summary form only given. A model of near-cathode layers in vacuum arcs is developed. The model relies on a numerical solution of the problem of near-cathode space-charge sheath with ionization of atoms emitted by the cathode surface and allows one to self-consistently determine all parameters of the near-cathode layer, including the ion backflow coefficient, as functions of the local surface temperature $T_{w}$ and the near-cathode voltage U. Evaluation results are given for Cu and CuCr cathodes. The dependence of the density of energy flux from the plasma to the cathode surface on $T_{w}$ for fixed U is shown to be non-monotonic with a maximum. This feature stems from the fact that the ion heating of the cathode grows faster than the electron emission cooling at lower $T_{w}$ and vice versa at higher $T_{w}.$ This feature is very important theoretically and suggests that spots on cathodes of vacuum arcs may appear due to thermal instability developing in the cathode body and that stationary regimes of cathode spots in vacuum arcs are possible, similarly to what happens in the theory of cathode spots in high-pressure arc discharges.The developed model may be used for a variety of purposes, including as a module of complex non-stationary 2D and 3D numerical models of plasma-cathode interaction. As a simple example, an analytical evaluation of parameters of stationary spots on copper and chromium is performed in this work. In the case of composite CuCr contacts with large grains, spots with current of several tens of amperes burning on the copper matrix coexist with spots with current of the order of one ampere burning on the chromium grains. This conclusion conforms to high-resolution photographs of high-current arcs between copper-chromium contacts taken at exposure times of 2υs, which revealed cathode spots with the average current of 45A similar to those on pure-copper cathodes, as well as very small and dim spots.
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ISBN	9781467351713
ISSN	07309244
DOI	10.1109/PLASMA.2013.6635060
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-06-16
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Cathodes Vacuum arcs Numerical models Plasmas Vacuum technology Copper Chromium
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics Condensed Matter Physics Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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