Amplitude–Temporal and Spectral Characteristics of Pulsed UHF-SHF Radiation of a High-Voltage Streamer Discharge in Air under the Atmospheric Pressure

Ilya Zudin (), Mikhail Gushchin, Ivan Vershinin, Sergey Korobkov, Petr Mikryukov, Askold Strikovskiy, Andrey Nikolenko, Alexey Belov, Vladimir Syssoev, Alexander Orlov, Dmitry Sukharevsky, Maria Naumova, Yuri Kuznetsov, Nikolay Shvets and Evgeniy Basov
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Ilya Zudin: Federal Research Center, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Mikhail Gushchin: Federal Research Center, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Ivan Vershinin: Federal Research Center, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Sergey Korobkov: Federal Research Center, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Petr Mikryukov: Federal Research Center, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Askold Strikovskiy: Federal Research Center, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Andrey Nikolenko: Federal Research Center, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Alexey Belov: FSUE «RFNC-VNIIEF», NIIIS Named after Yu.E. Sedakov, Nizhny Novgorod 603951, Russia
Vladimir Syssoev: FSUE «RFNC-VNIITF Named after Academ. E.I. Zababakhin», VNIC 900, Istra 143502, Russia
Alexander Orlov: FSUE «RFNC-VNIITF Named after Academ. E.I. Zababakhin», VNIC 900, Istra 143502, Russia
Dmitry Sukharevsky: FSUE «RFNC-VNIITF Named after Academ. E.I. Zababakhin», VNIC 900, Istra 143502, Russia
Maria Naumova: FSUE «RFNC-VNIITF Named after Academ. E.I. Zababakhin», VNIC 900, Istra 143502, Russia
Yuri Kuznetsov: FSUE «RFNC-VNIITF Named after Academ. E.I. Zababakhin», VNIC 900, Istra 143502, Russia
Nikolay Shvets: FSUE «RFNC-VNIITF Named after Academ. E.I. Zababakhin», VNIC 900, Istra 143502, Russia
Evgeniy Basov: FSUE «RFNC-VNIITF Named after Academ. E.I. Zababakhin», VNIC 900, Istra 143502, Russia

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 24, 1-10

Abstract: A special experimental setup with a three-electrode discharge gap was used to study the dynamic characteristics of the ultra-high- and super-high-frequency (UHF-SHF) electromagnetic radiation of a high-voltage discharge having the streamer form with reference to the dynamics of individual streamers at the nanosecond time resolution. We performed synchronous detection of the radiation waveforms using a wideband horn antenna, on the one hand, and high-speed photography of the discharge development in the discharge gap using an ICCD camera, on the other hand. It was found that the high-voltage discharge is a source of radiation in the frequency band up to 10 GHz, which is a series of individual ultrawideband (UWB) bursts having durations of less than 1 ns and leading fronts less than 100 ps long and appears when the streamers moving from the discharge anode (thin wire) meet the discharge cathode (plane). By the order of magnitude, the number of radiation bursts corresponds to the number of streamers that reach the electrode, according to the high-speed photography data. The qualitative data confirmed by simple theoretical estimations show that the sources of UWB radiation pulses are individual streamers at the moment of their contact with the electrode, and the radiation of the streamers can be regarded as transition radiation.

Keywords: high voltage discharge; air breakdown; streamer propagation; ultra-high frequency; super-high frequency; UWB electromagnetic pulses (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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