Addressing structure using ionizable gaseous mixture having decreased decay time

摘要

The method involves providing a gaseous mixture that includes the ionizable gaseous medium and a gas containing collision-wise matched ionized particles in a predetermined amount. An ionizing device allows the ionizable gaseous medium to leave the ionized state and, as a consequence, to produce atomic particles of the ionizable gaseous medium in an excited state. The ion-atomic particle collisions reduces occurrences of secondary ionization-producing collisions between the atomic particles of the ionizable gaseous medium. Such arrangement is used to reduce release of free electrons associated with the ion-atomic particle collisions and thereby decrease the time required to return the ionizable gaseous medium from the ionized state to the non-ionized state.