Research Projects
In this section of the website, the research projects that are a part of EINLIGHTRED are treated. The various pages listed below are maintained by the people who work directly at the specific project. Since some of them already maintain a different website, the text here might only be terse and instead a link is given to the official project site.
Breakdown
Breakdown is the process in which an initially insulating gas becomes conducting under the influence of for example an electric field. Refer to this page to read more on this.
Segregation in HID-lamps
High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps are a relatively new type of lamps. Their range of applications is quickly exanding from road lighting to for example shop lighting, flood lighting and automotive lighting. These lamps have the advantage of being energy efficient and having a long lifetime. Even their colour rendering properties are rather good nowadays.
Under certain conditions, convection inside the lamps might make the colour output inhomogeneous. Although generally undesirable, it also gives an opportunity to obtain a better understanding of the physical processes inside the lamp. More about this can be found in this page.
Polydiagnostisch Laboratorium
In the Polydiagnostic laboratory, a multitude of techniques is available to measure plasma properties. Read more about it on this website.
Plasma television
Plasma television are used often in places where one needs a large display. Classical cathode ray tubes are unwieldy to produce in such sizes and LCD displays are hard to construct flawlessly for such display areas. In a plasma display panel (PDP), each pixel is formed by tiny plasma, one for each of the primary colours. One can read more about these plasmas here.
EUV-lithography
Light plays an important role in the production of computer chips. To project the features on silicon wafers requires a high resolution that is limited by the wavelength of the light used for this. Because of this, progressively shorter wavelenght have been employed in the past in order to be able to produce smaller structures. At the moment the development of litography systems focusses on extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) at a wavelength of 13.5 nm. The plasmas used to produce this light are under investigation within out institute. More about them can be read here.
Plasma modelling
Numerical models of plasmas are essential tools to interpret measurements and to understand them. A list of the models being developed withing EiINLIGHTRED is given on this page.
Arges
Arges is the space project of Philips and Eindhoven University of Technology. By means of "switching off" gravity in parabolic flights and in the International Space Station, insight can be gained in the importance of convection in these lamps and the effect this has on segregation. Have a look at the Arges-website!
Laser Wakefield
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