Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Nazieh Mohammad Masoud

Daniel Ely Murnick

Richard E Riman

Excimers are formed in a high pressure gas by applying a potential between a first electrode () and a counter electrode () so as to impose an electric field within the gas, or by introducing high energy electrons into the gas using an electron beam. A phosphor for converting the wavelength of radiation emitted from the formed excimers is disposed within the gas and outside a region () where the excimers are expected to be formed, so as to avoid degradation of the phosphor.

Fluorescent excimer lamps

A high brightness excimer light source has an elongated tube containing an excimer-forming gas and electrodes for exciting the gas to form a plasma, and thus create excimers such as a rare gas halogen excimer or a rare gas excimer. Light emitted from the excimer propagating axially along the tube passes out of the tube through an exit device such as a lens or optical fiber at one or both ends of the tube.

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Brookfield, WI, United States of America

Nazieh Mohammad Masoud