GB2472293A - Electrodeless high pressure discharge lamp - Google Patents

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GB2472293A
GB2472293A GB1010402A GB201010402A GB2472293A GB 2472293 A GB2472293 A GB 2472293A GB 1010402 A GB1010402 A GB 1010402A GB 201010402 A GB201010402 A GB 201010402A GB 2472293 A GB2472293 A GB 2472293A
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Klaus Stockwald
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    • HELECTRICITY
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    • H01JELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J65/00Lamps without any electrode inside the vessel; Lamps with at least one main electrode outside the vessel
    • H01J65/04Lamps in which a gas filling is excited to luminesce by an external electromagnetic field or by external corpuscular radiation, e.g. for indicating plasma display panels
    • H01J65/042Lamps in which a gas filling is excited to luminesce by an external electromagnetic field or by external corpuscular radiation, e.g. for indicating plasma display panels by an external electromagnetic field
    • H01J65/044Lamps in which a gas filling is excited to luminesce by an external electromagnetic field or by external corpuscular radiation, e.g. for indicating plasma display panels by an external electromagnetic field the field being produced by a separate microwave unit
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01JELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J61/00Gas-discharge or vapour-discharge lamps
    • H01J61/02Details
    • H01J61/12Selection of substances for gas fillings; Specified operating pressure or temperature
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01JELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J61/00Gas-discharge or vapour-discharge lamps
    • H01J61/02Details
    • H01J61/12Selection of substances for gas fillings; Specified operating pressure or temperature
    • H01J61/125Selection of substances for gas fillings; Specified operating pressure or temperature having an halogenide as principal component
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01JELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J61/00Gas-discharge or vapour-discharge lamps
    • H01J61/02Details
    • H01J61/12Selection of substances for gas fillings; Specified operating pressure or temperature
    • H01J61/14Selection of substances for gas fillings; Specified operating pressure or temperature having one or more carbon compounds as the principal constituents
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01JELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J61/00Gas-discharge or vapour-discharge lamps
    • H01J61/02Details
    • H01J61/12Selection of substances for gas fillings; Specified operating pressure or temperature
    • H01J61/18Selection of substances for gas fillings; Specified operating pressure or temperature having a metallic vapour as the principal constituent
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01JELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J65/00Lamps without any electrode inside the vessel; Lamps with at least one main electrode outside the vessel
    • H01J65/04Lamps in which a gas filling is excited to luminesce by an external electromagnetic field or by external corpuscular radiation, e.g. for indicating plasma display panels

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Abstract

The lamp comprises a fill mixture contained within a bulb which when receiving microwave energy from a resonating body forms a light-emitting plasma. The fill comprises organic compounds chosen from a group which comprises acetylene, methane, propane, butane, and acetylides.

Description

Title: Electrodeless High Pressure DISCHARGE lamp Technical Area The invention relies to the field of electrodeless high pressure discharge lamps (EHID), especially intended for general illumination or photo-optical application.
Background art
From US-A US2009146543 plasma lamps are used. They are based on electrcdeless high pressure discharge lamps which are often referred to as EHID. This citation is in-corporated by reference.
Description of the invention
The task of the invention in hand is to provide an im-proved EHID lamp.
This task is solved by means of the following features: An electrodeless high pressure discharge lamp comprising a fill of fill mixture contained within a bulb which when receiving microwave energy from a resonating body forms a light-emitting plasma wherein the fill comprises organic compounds chosen from a group which comprises acetylene, methane, propane, butane, and acetylides.
An electrodeless high intensity metal halide lamp with the following fill components is disclosed: A gaseous part of the fill which has gaseous form under normal conditions. This means the temperature range in- between -20 up to 20 °0. Said fill part contains ionis-able components: This may be a mixture of: Proportion 1: (a) inert rare gases typically in the pressure range of 0.1 mbar to 10000 mbar, typically 5 to 500 mbar. Exam-ples are Kr, Ar, Xe, Ne.
(b) molecular gases in the range of a proportion of at least 250 ppm. preferably these are the following gases alone or in combination: D2, H2, DH; 00, 002, N20, SF6, 012, J2, 8r2, N2, acetylene, or other organic gases, esp.
methane, propane, butane or the like. The Amount of gases (b) is preferably in the range of about 250 ppm to 5000 ppm.
Proportion 2: In addition the fill comprises a non- gaseous part with low vapor pressure at standard condi- tions. This non-gaseous part comprises alone or in combi-nation: (a) a first part consisting of a elemental metal which is dosed as a metal drop or chip wire or sphere or powder or evaporated coating: like -Hg, Zn, Tl, Mg, Mn, In, W, Rh, Re, Ir, Os, Mo, Nb, Sn, Ga, Al, or the like Typically if dosed intentionally it should be dosed in a concentration of at least 0.lmg/ccm. A preferred range is 1 to 10 mg/cm3 A typical amount is in the range of 0.2 to pmol/cm3 (b) a second part consisting of a metal halide mixture.
this might be divided up in (bl) at least one or a group of metal halides with high volatility typically with a boiling point in the range below 95Q0 C. Preferred embodiments are halides of the following metals alone or in combination: Zn, In, Tl, Mn, Mg, Al, Sn, Hf, Zr, Ta, Nb, \J, Sb, Ga, Cu, Fe, or the like.
(b2) at least one or a group of metal halides with low volatility with a boiling point in the range of at least 95Q° C. Preferred embodiments are rare earth -halides or lanthanoide-halides, esp. of Y, Sc, La, alkali-metal halides.
(b3) at least one or a group of oxides which may serve as a donator of oxygen; preferred embodiments are A1203, CaD, or the like.
(b4) at least one or a group of metal-organic agents like acetylides of Cu, Fe, In, or the like; (b5) at least one or a group of chalcogenes, preferably Te, Se, 5, or/and chalcogenides like TeS, SeS, and so on.
A typical amount of second part (b) is in the range of 0.2 to 200 pmol/cm3.
The fill comprises or is composed by at least one compo-nent of first part and one of second part.
Preferably an advantageous embodiment is a combination of proportion 1, item (a), abbreviated by 1(a), and propor- tion 2 embodiment (a), abbreviated as 2(a) plus embodi- ment (bl) plus embodiment (b2) . Such a fill may prefera-bly have additional ingredients from proportion 1, item b and or from proportion 2, item b5.
A preferred embodiment is a combination of 1(a) + 1(b) -i-2(bl) + 2(b4) or a combination of l(a)+ 2(b4) + 2(b5).
By using these fills an especially constricted plasma formation can be obtained with a high molecular emission contribution.
Preferably the arc tube has a tubular or pill shape. It can be made preferably from alumina ceramics or glass ce-ramic or quartz glass.
The arc may be placed in an outer bulb which is filled with gas or which is evacuated.
Preferably the arc tube for use in an EHID system of the invention can have different inner and outer shape, see figure 1. Typically for longitudinal electric field igni-tion and longitudinal electrical driving field strength the lamp has an elongated structure around an axis with symmetric ends.
Typically the aspect ratio AR between inner length IL and inner diameter ID of the inner volume (IL/ID) of the dis-charge vessel is typically AR �= 1, most preferable is AR �= 1.5 and especially it should not be higher than AR = 8.
The vessel shape can be cylindrically or partly cylindri-cal in the central part of the lamp extension, but can have different end shapes which may be thinned at the end portions.
If the arc tube vessel is thinned at the end portions ap-plicator structures may be attached in these areas.
Other shapes which are tapered or spheroid shaped may also be used for optimizations of the thermal behaviour and the fill or plasma shape.
Typical the material of the discharge vessel is made of mainly densely sintered polycrystalline ceramic like PCA (alumina), Yttria; lAG, POD (dysprosia), A1N, A1ON or the like.
For sealing at least one of the end portions, ceramic glass frits (typically mixtures of oxides) are used.
Typically for the wall load of the arc tube on the inside referred to the RF input power into the lamp, ranges from 10-60 W/cm3, more favourable in the range 15-40 W/cm3 and the outer wall load ranges typically in the range of 10-W/cm3.
The wall load along the total area where the plasma is created, which may be a shorter length compared to the maximum inner length, ranges on the inside from 20-120 W/cm3, more favourable in the range 30-80 W/cm and on the outer wall in the range 20-60 W/cm3.
The fill of the discharge vessel has a fill that can be ionized and contains at least a gaseous component in the cold non-operational condition.
Typically it contains several components which may be va-porized during operation and build up a stable vapour pressure at operational conditions.
The typical pressure under these conditions is at least 0.5 bar and the system can be considered to build up a high pressure discharge.
Description of the drawings
Figure 1 several shapes for EHID discharge vessels; Figure 2 two shapes for outer bulbs for vessels accord-ing to Figure 1.
Best mode for carrying out the invention
Figure 1 shows schematically a PCA discharge vessel. It can be of different shape. Figure la to lh show preferred shapes. A1203 ceramic is a preferred material.
Figure 2 shows an El-lID arc tube within an outer bulb. The inner bulb may be locked by cage wires, see Figure 2a, or is held in place by a special end construction with a co-ating, see Figure 2b.
An advantageous fill is a combination of the following: Xenon plus acetylene or H2 or SF6 plus iodide of Zn plus Cu acetylide.
A second embodiment is a combination of the following: Argon plus Fe acetylide plus SeS.
The whole lamp may comprise the following features (a) a waveguide having a body of a preselected shape and dimensions, the body comprising at least one dielectric material and having at least one surface determined by a waveguide outer surface, each said material having a di-electric constant greater than approximately 2; (b) a first microwave probe positioned within and in in-timate contact with the body, adapted to couple microwave energy into the body from a microwave source having an output and an input and operating within a frequency range from about 0.25 GHz to about 30 GHz at a prese-lected frequency and intensity, the probe connected to the source output, said frequency and intensity and said body shape and dimensions selected so that the body reso-nates in at least one resonant mode having at least one
electric field maximum;
(c) the body having a lamp chamber depending from said waveguide outer surface and determined by a chamber aper- ture and a chamber enclosure determined by a bottom sur-face and at least one surrounding wall surface; (d) a transparent, dielectric bulb within the lamp cham-ber; and (e) a fill mixture contained within the bulb which when receiving microwave energy from the resonating body forms a light-emitting plasma wherein the fill comprises or-ganic compounds chosen from a group which comprises acetylene, methane, propane, butane, and acetylides.
More generally a plasma lamp is disclosed comprising a fill of fill mixture contained within a bulb which when receiving microwave energy from a resonating body forms a light-emitting plasma wherein the fill comprises organic compounds chosen from a group which comprises acetylene, methane, propane, butane, and acetylides.

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  1. Claims What is claimed is: 1. An electrodeless high pressure discharge lamp compris-ing: (a) a waveguide having a body of a preselected shape and dimensions, the body comprising at least one dielectric material and having at least one surface determined by a waveguide outer surface, each said material having a di-electric constant greater than approximately 2; (b) a first microwave probe positioned within and in in-timate contact with the body, adapted to couple microwave energy into the body from a microwave source having an output and an input and operating within a frequency range from about 0.25 GHz to about 30 13Hz at a prese-lected frequency and intensity, the probe connected to the source output, said frequency and intensity and said body shape and dimensions selected so that the body reso-nates in at least one resonant mode having at least oneelectric field maximum;(c) the body having a lamp chamber depending from said waveguide outer surface and determined by a chamber aper- ture and a chamber enclosure determined by a bottom sur-face and at least one surrounding wall surface; (d) a transparent, dielectric bulb within the lamp cham-ber; and (e) a fill mixture contained within the bulb which when receiving microwave energy from the resonating body forms a light-emitting plasma wherein the fill comprises or-ganic compounds chosen from a group which comprises acetylene, methane, propane, butane, and acetylides.
  2. 2. An electrodeless high pressure discharge lamp compris-ing a fill of fill mixture contained within a bulb which when receiving microwave energy from a resonating body forms a light-emitting plasma wherein the fill comprises organic compounds chosen from a group which comprises acetylene, methane, propane, butane, and acetylides.
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JPS57172650A (en) * 1981-04-17 1982-10-23 Mitsubishi Electric Corp Non-electrode electric-discharge lamp
EP0422816A2 (en) * 1989-10-11 1991-04-17 THORN EMI plc A discharge tube arrangement
EP0521553A2 (en) * 1991-07-01 1993-01-07 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. High-pressure glow discharge lamp
JPH1069890A (en) * 1996-08-27 1998-03-10 Matsushita Electric Ind Co Ltd Electrodeless discharge lamp device
CN101261924A (en) * 2007-03-09 2008-09-10 许树良 A low air pressure CO electromagnetic lamp
US20090146543A1 (en) * 2000-07-31 2009-06-11 Luxim Corporation Plasma lamp with dielectric waveguide integrated with transparent bulb
GB2468580A (en) * 2009-03-10 2010-09-15 Osram Ges Mit Beschrankter Electrodeless high pressure discharge lamp with cage wire support structure
WO2010104919A2 (en) * 2009-03-13 2010-09-16 Osram Sylvania Inc. Ehid lamp having integrated field applicator and optical coupler

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JPS57172650A (en) * 1981-04-17 1982-10-23 Mitsubishi Electric Corp Non-electrode electric-discharge lamp
EP0422816A2 (en) * 1989-10-11 1991-04-17 THORN EMI plc A discharge tube arrangement
EP0521553A2 (en) * 1991-07-01 1993-01-07 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. High-pressure glow discharge lamp
JPH1069890A (en) * 1996-08-27 1998-03-10 Matsushita Electric Ind Co Ltd Electrodeless discharge lamp device
US20090146543A1 (en) * 2000-07-31 2009-06-11 Luxim Corporation Plasma lamp with dielectric waveguide integrated with transparent bulb
CN101261924A (en) * 2007-03-09 2008-09-10 许树良 A low air pressure CO electromagnetic lamp
GB2468580A (en) * 2009-03-10 2010-09-15 Osram Ges Mit Beschrankter Electrodeless high pressure discharge lamp with cage wire support structure
WO2010104919A2 (en) * 2009-03-13 2010-09-16 Osram Sylvania Inc. Ehid lamp having integrated field applicator and optical coupler

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