Description

McPherson announced their new and improved stability with flow controlled McPherson windowless, hollow cathode UV lamp Model 629. This broad-spectrum source emits ionized gas emission lines with little or no absorption by neutral gas. Computer controlled gas flow and constant current power supply improve stability for better spectroscopy. The Model 629 hollow cathode UV lamp produces excited atoms and ions. These emit electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths characteristic of the gas flowing through the system. It is similar to inductively coupled plasma (ICP) atomic emission spectroscopy systems. Mirrors can reflect the light to an analytical optical system, a spectrometer or spectrophotometer. Since there is no limiting window, this UV source works in the more energetic range of wavelengths from double ionized Helium at 30 nanometers up to the Visible light range (2 to 40 eV). This windowless hollow cathode UV lamp is versatile; it can simultaneously introduce and ionize samples. Molecules of sample media are broken inWhere gaseous samples are encountered (semiconductor end-point determination of CVD chamber cleaning) the process becomes more like atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). This determines chemistry by absorption of optical radiation (light) by free atoms in a gas. Hydrogen source gas provides a many lined, continuum emission spectrum useful for checking absorbance in the 90 to 160 nanometer range. For more information contact McPherson Inc., Chelmsford MA 01824 USA, www.McPhersoninc.com, email: erik.schoeffel@McPhersonInc.com, PH: 800-255-1055. to charged ions after colliding with the electrons and charged ions in the lamps plasma. They emit radiation at characteristic ‘fingerprint’ wavelengths of the elements involved. The relative intensity of emission indicates concentration of an element within the sample. The McPherson Model 629 windowless discharge lamp operated with Helium as a carrier gas offers a low clean background.