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Rotational and vibrational temperatures have been measured by time-resolved optical emission spectroscopy in a pulsed surface wave discharge in airlike mixture. For a wave frequency of 1.1 GHz, a pulse length of 4.5 μs and a peak power of 20 kW the temperatures are increasing by a factor of 3 during the first μs. These variations certainly have a great influence on air breakdown.
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