Metal halide lamp with an ionizable fill with vanadium and rare earths, excluding manganese

1. A metal halide lamp having an ionizable fill comprising at least one inert gas, mercury, with at least one halogen, the fill comprising Tl, Cs and rare earths as metals, wherein the fill additionally comprises V halide and no manganese.

2. The metal halide lamp as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one halide from the group of the rare earths Dy, Ho, Tm is used.

3. The metal halide lamp as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the fill contains between 0.1 and 2.5 mg of RE halide per ml of bulb volume of the discharge vessel.

4. The metal halide lamp as claimed in claim 1 , wherein iodine, bromine or combinations thereof are used as halogens for forming halides.

5. The metal halide lamp as claimed in claim 4 , wherein iodine, with at most 10 mol % of bromine is used as the halogen.

6. The metal halide lamp as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the molar ratio between rare earths and vanadium is between 1.5 and 30.

7. The metal halide lamp as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the lamp also comprises: an outer bulb made from hard glass or quartz glass enclosing a discharge vessel ( 2 ) made from quartz glass with two electrodes ( 11 ) therein, which electrodes are held in seals, the outer bulb being secured at the seals, and with a space between the discharge vessel and the outer bulb.

8. The metal halide lamp as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the space between discharge vessel and outer bulb contains a gas fill.

9. The metal halide lamp as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the gas fill consists of 200 to 900 mbar N 2 or noble gas or CO 2 alone or in combination.

10. The metal halide lamp as claimed in claim 2 , wherein Dy is in a proportion of more than 50% of the rare earth total.

11. The metal halide lamp as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the molar ratio between rare earths and vanadium is between 2 and 20.