Electron-impact cross sections of Ne

Electron-impact absolute emission cross sections were measured for the 3p --> 3s transitions of Ne. Excitation functions of the 3s --> 2p first resonance lines were measured in the energy range from the threshold to 1000 eV by a polarization-free optical method and relative cross sections were normalized to the absolute values, (41.0 +/- 5.4) x 10(-19) cm(2) for the 73.6 nm line and (7.1 +/- 1.0) x 10(-19) cm(2) for the 74.4 nm line, which were determined at 500 eV. The integrated level-excitation cross sections of Suzuki et al for the 1s(2) and 1s(4) levels were combined with the corresponding 3p --> 3s cascade cross sections obtained in this paper to give absolute emission cross sections for the resonance lines. The level-excitation cross sections of the Ist and Isl states in Paschen notation were determined from the threshold to 1000 eV by subtracting 3p --> 3s cascade cross sections from the corresponding 3s --> 2p emission cross sections of the resonance lines. A large cascade contribution is found in the emission cross section of the resonance lines. It is 28.5% for the 73.6 nm line and 49.6% for the 74.4 nm line at 40 eV, and 17.0 and 61.8%, respectively, at 300 eV.