Design of plasma power for an atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge

This paper is devoted to the inverter design of power supply for cold plasma loads. Based on the half-bridge inverter, the proposed circuit design has included the hybrid resonant inverter as well as soft-switching techniques such that the operation performance of the system can be significantly improved, while the volume of heat dissipation can be largely decreased. Moreover, through the software simulations and experimental measurement, relationships between input and output voltage are analyzed and validated. It was confirmed that test results gained from simulations and experiments will support the academic and practical value of the proposed hybrid resonant inverter circuits for the application considered.