Power supplies for excilamps -a review of structures for UV emission control

Dimitri Schitz (1) , Hubert Piquet (2) , Rafael Diez (3) , Mahamat Abakar Djibrillah (2) , Sounil Bhosle (4) , Victor Tarasenko (1) , Eduard Sosnin (1)

1 SB RAS - Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2 LAPLACE-GENESYS - Groupe ENergie Electrique et SYStémique
3 PUJ - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
4 LAPLACE - LAboratoire PLasma et Conversion d'Energie

Dielectric barrier discharge excimer lamps (excilamps) are well known powerful and efficient sources of UV emission. The UV emission is tightly related to the electric power transferred to the lamp and very different performances are obtained, depending upon the characteristics of the power supply which is used. This paper proposes a review of power topologies, which have been used by the authors for various purposes (laboratory physic domain investigations and UV emission process oriented studies). For each of them, the topology and its operating principle, as well as a discussion of the merits concerning the performances (UV emission, design pitfalls, efficiency, reliability, waveforms …) are proposed.

Mots clés: Electric Discharge Power Supply; Dielectric Barrier Discharge; Excimer Lamp; Ultra Violet Generation (UV); DBD; Electric Discharge Power Supply

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Energie électrique; Plasmas; Electronique

Dimitri Schitz, Hubert Piquet, Rafael Diez, Mahamat Abakar Djibrillah, Sounil Bhosle, et al.. Power supplies for excilamps -a review of structures for UV emission control. 12th International Symposium On Science and Technology of Light Sources, Jul 2010, Eindhoven, Netherlands. ⟨hal-02515658⟩