Generation of plasma in liquid without bubbles by nanosecond pulsed discharge: Fast imaging and modeling

Summary form only given. Plasma is best known as a gas phase phenomenon. Although efforts have been made in the past several decades to seek plasma in fluid phase, most researchers observed plasma only in low density phase (gas) bubbles and voids dispersed within fluids. Recent advances in pulsed power technology permitted application of much faster voltage rise times (including the subnanosecond range) and revealed that plasma-like phenomena can, in fact, occur in fluid phase quasi-homogeneously without any bubbles and voids¹.