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Figure 1. A nonrelativistic window of the temperature—composition plane, showing electron density (n) and temperature (T). Normal conditions (on earth) for semiconductors and elemental metals and conditions on the Sun, Jupiter, and the White Dwarf are shown. Experimental methods in A, B, C, and D are Tokamak, glow-discharge, laser fusion, and degenerate strongly coupled plasma, respectively. Wigner—Seitz radii, rs, are also shown (adapted from Redmei4).

Silicon is normally applied via glow discharges or the injection of silane (SiH4). As silicon is non recycling and sticks on the PFCs, a more or less continuous getter effect for oxygen will result. However, this is not so easily... 

Figure 21.3 Effect of normalized energy input, WjFM, of the methane glow discharge on the sputter deposited metal content in the plasma polymer of methane film.

Knowledge of the atomic spectra is also very important so as to be able to select interference-free analysis lines for a given element in a well-defined matrix at a certain concentration level. To do this, wavelength atlases or spectral cards for the different sources can be used, as they have been published for arcs and sparks, glow discharges and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (see earlier). In the case of ICP-OES, for example, an atlas with spectral scans around a large number of prominent analytical lines [329] is available, as well as tables with normalized intensities and critical concentrations for atomic emission spectrometers with different spectral bandwidths for a large number of these measured ICP line intensities, and also for intensities calculated from arc and spark tables [334]. The problem of the selection of interference-free lines in any case is much more complex than in AAS or AFS work. 

In the conventional glow discharge polymerization, the normalized deposition rate is given by... 

The Initiation of glow discharge In the reactor was normally accompanied with a change In original reactor pressure. The pressure changes were precisely recorded for all the experiments. 

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