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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I often hear people saying: „Did you treat your grid with glow discharge or with plasma cleaner?” Or : ”It is absolutely essential for application XY to pretreat the grid with a plasma cleaner and not by glow discharge!”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Can anyone explain what the difference between glow discharge and a plasma cleaning is?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">According to Wikipedia, this is the same thing (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow_discharge">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow_discharge</a>). The page starts with this sentence:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“</span><span lang="EN">A <b>glow discharge</b> is a
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics)" title="Plasma (physics)">
plasma</a> formed by the passage of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_current" title="Electric current">
electric current</a> through a low-pressure gas”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I look forward to an interesting debate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ben<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Prof. Benoît Zuber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Institute of Anatomy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE-CH" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">University of Bern<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE-CH" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Baltzerstrasse 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE-CH" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Postfach 922<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE-CH" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">3000 Bern 9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE-CH" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE-CH" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Tel. +41 31 631 84 40<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE-CH" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">benoit.zuber@ana.unibe.ch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE-CH" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">http://www.ana.unibe.ch/~exmo/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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