Optical emission spectroscopy measurements of electron beam-generated plasma in argon

Author

Lock, E.H. ; Boris, D.R. ; Walton, S.G. ; Fernsler, R.F. ; Franek, J. ; Singer, I.L.

Author_Institution

Plasma Phys. Div., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Summary from only given. Optical emission spectroscopy is simple, non-intrusive diagnostics that has been extensively applied for characterization of excited species produced in discharges. In this work, we apply optical emission spectroscopy to electron beam-generated plasma produced in argon. The effects of magnetic field, duty factor, pressure and current density on the produced optical emission are discussed. Collisional-radiative model is applied to estimate species density and electron temperature and compare to the experimental results.

Keywords

argon; discharges (electric); plasma collision processes; plasma diagnostics; plasma pressure; plasma temperature; Ar; collisional-radiative model; current density; discharge process; duty factor; electron beam-generated plasma; electron temperature; excited species characterization; magnetic field effect; nonintrusive diagnostics method; optical emission spectroscopy measurement; plasma pressure; Electron beams; Electron optics; Optical beams; Optical variables measurement; Plasma measurements; Plasmas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-330-8

Electronic_ISBN

0730-9244

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993355

Filename

5993355