[Tim_Petrik]

Ivy, I don’t think the gas cathodes have to end at the same plane as the center-anode. The current should stop flowing axially away from the back wall once the center electrode (solid) ends.

Dr. Lerner, thank you for your encouragement! I don’t know enough about the differences between Mather/Fillipov-style DPFs to comment on the necessity of solid electrodes. But I’d like to point out that I only want to replace the outer electrodes with gas electrodes and keep the design of the center electrode and insulator unchanged. If the resulting design doesn’t fit with Mather/Fillipov-style DPFs, maybe a new name can be found 😉

[Tim_Petrik]

Francisl, thank you for the links. I’d like to point out that I’m not suggesting pre-ionizing all of the gas in the reactor. Rather, I suggest shining laser light into the reactor to primarily ionize the reactor volume that is currently occupied by the cathodes. In other words, take out the 8 electrodes, install 8 quartz windows in the same place were the electrodes used to join the head plate and ionize the gas column where the electrodes used to be. When the caps fire, electrical resistance will be the smallest along the ionized gas columns, so the ionized gas columns will become your new electrodes with the benefits listed in my previous posting.

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