Modeling of a Dielectric Barrier Discharge Lamp for UV Production

Excilamps are artificial Ultraviolet sources based on the emission of excimers or exciplexes. These latter are excited states of weakly bound rare gas or halide/rare gas atoms which emit a photon in the UV region when they dissociate. Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) excilamps are promizing UV sources for the future, provided the coupling between their power supply is optimized. The model presented here describes the space and time evolution of a 1D DBD supplied with various waveforms.