L O Vilarinho and C Fanara 2004 Meas. Sci. Technol. 15 67 doi:10.1088/0957-0233/15/1/010
L O Vilarinho1,2 and C Fanara1
Show affiliationsThe split-anode technique developed in the 1960s for the study of the anode region of atmospheric pressure arcs has been modified in order to reduce (and subsequently eliminate) the need for double Abel inversion to reconstruct the local physical information. A first version of a detector based on a conductive sheet is presented and the performances of the new set-up are compared under varying arc conditions. Good stability against erratic arcing was obtained using relatively high arc travel speed (60 mm s−1). The signal shape shows a good degree of symmetry in forward and backward motion of the arc through the anode interface, although the disturbance of the latter cannot be avoided completely. The voltage readings obtained at several arc currents fall in between two sets of previously published data. Preliminary results on current density are also given.
52.70.Ds Electric and magnetic measurements
07.07.Df Sensors (chemical, optical, electrical, movement, gas, etc.); remote sensing
Issue 1 (January 2004)
Received 20 August 2003, accepted for publication 1 October 2003, in final form 24 September 2003
Published 20 October 2003
L O Vilarinho and C Fanara 2004 Meas. Sci. Technol. 15 67
Arbab I Arbab 2003 Class. Quantum Grav. 20 93
Andy Adler 2004 Physiol. Meas. 25 227
Winfried Michaelis et al 2004 Metrologia 41 L29
Jorge Llacer et al 2003 Phys. Med. Biol. 48 183
D L Livesey and C L Smith 1953 Proc. Phys. Soc. A 66 689
J B Seth et al 1928 Proc. Phys. Soc. 41 29
Emanuele Fiorani et al 2003 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36 L101
Richard Wakeford 2009 J. Radiol. Prot. 29 1
B Sorgic et al 1995 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 7 7209