Paschen's law
Ley de Paschen
- Date
- 1889 · confidence high
- Place
- Strasbourg, Germany (now France)
- Credited to
- Friedrich Paschen
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Empirical law relating the breakdown voltage of an electrical discharge in a gas to the product of pressure and electrode gap; discovered by Friedrich Paschen.
What it led to
- Design of discharge tubes and neon lamps
- High-voltage electrical insulation engineering
- Development of plasma physics