The manipulation of atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier plasma jets

Author

Olszewski, P. ; Walsh, J.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

8-13 July 2012

Abstract

Atmospheric pressure plasma jets offer a unique route to transport reactive chemical species generated under highly non-equilibrium conditions to a remote downstream sample; as such, they have become the device of choice in many biological and materials processing applications.¹ While our understanding of the propagation mechanism behind the plasma plume is ever increasing,² little is known of how, once launched, the properties of the ionisation front can be manipulated in such a way that a particular chemistry can be delivered to a particular spatial location downstream.

Keywords

ionisation; plasma applications; plasma chemistry; plasma devices; plasma jets; plasma transport processes; atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier plasma jets; biological application; ionisation properties; material processing application; nonequilibrium conditions; plasma plume; pressure 1 atm; propagation mechanism; reactive chemical species transport; remote downstream sample; spatial location downstream; Dielectrics; Educational institutions; Electrical engineering; Electrodes; Ionization; Physics; Plasmas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2012 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2127-4

Electronic_ISBN

0730-9244

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2012.6383772

Filename

6383772