• DocumentCode
    1556977
  • Title

    Pressure Effects in the Spatial Development of Microcathode Sustained Discharges in Rare-Gas Oxygen Mixtures

  • Author

    Sousa, Joao Santos ; Puech, Vincent

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. de Phys. des Gaz et des Plasmas, Univ. Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    2680
  • Lastpage
    2681
  • Abstract
    It has been recently demonstrated that microcathode sustained discharges (MCSD) are very efficient for the production of large fluxes of singlet delta oxygen (SDO). In this paper, a comparison between MCSD operation in Ar/O2 and in He/O2 mixtures is done. It is shown that, even if SDO production efficiency is theoretically much higher in Ar/O2 mixtures, atmospheric pressure operation is only possible in He-based mixtures.
  • Keywords
    argon; cathodes; discharges (electric); excited states; helium; oxygen; plasma pressure; plasma sources; Ar-O2; Ar-O2 mixture; He-O2; He-O2 mixture; MCSD; SDO production efficiency; atmospheric pressure operation; large singlet delta oxygen flux production; microcathode sustained discharge spatial development; pressure 1 atm; pressure effects; rare gas-oxygen mixtures; Argon; Discharges; Fault location; Helium; Plasma temperature; Production; Atmospheric pressure plasmas; microdischarges; singlet oxygen;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0093-3813
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPS.2011.2157838
  • Filename
    5887429
    • Link To Document
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