The Development of Random Striations in the Positive Column of a Glow Discharge
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The paper represents an analysis of the characteristic properties of spontaneously excited irregular striations observed in the positive column of a glow discharge. Comparisions with the properties of coherent, externally excited, growing ionization waves lead to the conclusion that irregular striations are random ionization waves. Assuming that random striations originate at the cathode end of the positive column, their frequency spectrum can be approximately explained from a knowledge of the dispersion relation of ionization waves. The nonlinear properties of random striations remain to be explained.
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