
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Prime, HA 
T1  - The Microwave Admittance of a Mercury-Vapour Discharge
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1952
VL  - 5
IS  - 4
SP  - 607
EP  - 617
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9520607 
N2  - The normalized conductance and susceptance of a low-pressure mercury-vapour discharge hare been measured as a function of the discharge current at a frequency of c. 10,000 Mc/s. by a microwave method. The complex conductivity of the discharge is then calculated from the admittance data by representing the discharge as a shunt admittance loading the waveguide. The validity of this approximate representation is examined. The conductivity results are in agreement with similar published results and the similarity between the characteristics of a D.C. sustained discharge and a, radio-frequency discharge are noted. It is deduced that the collision frequency varies only slowly with change in discharge current. 
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