Excimer lamps microwave excitation

Monochromatic UV radiation is emitted by excimer lamps, in which microwave discharge5 or a radio-frequency-driven silent discharge6 generates excimer-excited states of noble gas halide molecules, which decay by the emission of monochromatic UV radiation. In the ground state, the excimer molecules decay into atoms. Therefore, no self-absorption of the UV radiation can occur. All photons are coupled out of the discharge.4... 

He Z, Prelas MA, Meese JM, Lin L-T (1998) Microwave Excitation and Applications of an Elliptical Excimer Lamp, Laser Part. Beams 16, No. 3 509-524. 

Kitamura M, Mitsuka K, Sato H (1994) A Practical High-Power Excimer Lamp Excited by a Microwave Discharge, Appl. Surf. Sci. 79/80 507-513. 

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