Atmospheric Plasma Jet Relay Driven by a 40-kHz Power Supply and Its Representative Characteristics

Author

Guangqing Xia ; Zhaoquan Chen ; Zhixiang Yin ; Jiankun Hao ; Zongqi Xu ; Changguo Xue ; Dong Hu ; Mengran Zhou ; Yelin Hu ; Kudryavtsev, Anatoliy A.

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Struct. Anal. for Ind. Equip., Dalian Univ. of Technol., Dalian, China

Volume

43

Issue

5

fYear

2015

fDate

May-15

Firstpage

1825

Lastpage

1831

Abstract

One type of atmospheric plasma jet relay driven by a 40-kHz power supply and its representative characteristics have been proposed in this paper. The plasma jet relay succeeds in the same gas stem or inside another guided dielectric tube. The first plasma jet can be capable of dividing into many small plasma jets at the end of metal wires and the filial generations can easily merge together to form longer volume discharges. The experiment indicates that the filamentary discharge starts from the formation of one snake-like discharge passage first and the followed snakes give birth from the previous snake discharge body. Taking into account the advantage of easily production methods and available to extend its discharge volume, the proposed plasma jet relay device can be modulated for many potential applications.

Keywords

filamentation instability; high-frequency discharges; plasma jets; atmospheric plasma jet relay; filamentary discharge; filial generations; frequency 40 kHz; gas stem; guided dielectric tube; metal wires; power supply; snake-like discharge passage; volume discharges; Argon; Dielectrics; Discharges (electric); Electron tubes; Plasmas; Relays; Wires; Atmospheric-pressure plasma; plasma jet relay; snake-like discharge; snake-like discharge.;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2015.2420119

Filename

7093192