3. Conducting an analysis. Quantifying results

3.1 Choice of operating parameters

If the material, anode diameter and working gas are fixed, the discharge conditions are determined by the parameters current intensity, voltage and gas pressure. A large number of publications deal with the interdependence of these three fundamental parameters I, V, p and the criteria for choosing them according to the analytical problem posed [23][24][25] .

Generally speaking, as indicated above, at constant voltage, discharge current increases linearly with argon pressure (figure