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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2013
Centre National DE LA Recherche Scientifique (Cnrs), Paris, FR;
Universite Joseph Fourier—grenoble 1, St. Martin d'Hères, FR;
Ana Lacoste, Saint Martin le Vinoux, FR;
Jacques Pelletier, St. Martin d'Hères, FR;
Universite Joseph Fourier—Grenoble 1, St. Martin d'Heres, FR;
Other;
Abstract
The disclosure includes a glow-discharge lamp including: an elongate casing transparent to illuminating radiation and containing a plasma gas; a device for applying an electric field for maintaining a plasma in the so-called positive column region of the casing, the device including two electrodes forming an anode and a cathode located in the casing at each end thereof; and a radio-frequency or microwave cathode plasma source arranged in the casing in relation to the cathode-forming electrode, such as to generate a high-frequency discharge located on the surface of the electrode in order to generate the plasma. The disclosure also includes a lighting method of such a glow-discharge lamp.