Plasma Sheets and Cylinders Generated From Aluminum Wire Fabric

Author

Price, Andrew J. ; Park, Sung-Jin ; Eden, J. Gary

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL

Volume

36

Issue

4

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1252

Lastpage

1253

Abstract

Low-temperature nonequilibrium plasma has been produced within the microcavities of a single sheet of aluminum wire fabric. The fabric is composed of two sets of interwoven, orthogonally oriented Al wires and each of the sets serves as an electrode for the array of dielectric barrier devices. Carefully controlled anodization of the fabric electrically and chemically isolates the two sets of wires from each other with a thin barrier of nanoporous aluminum oxide. The resulting material is flexible, and cylindrical microcavity plasma lamps operating in Ne have been demonstrated.

Keywords

aluminium; anodisation; discharge lamps; fabrics; glow discharges; microcavities; neon; wires; Al; Ne; aluminum wire fabric microcavities; controlled anodization; cylindrical microcavity plasma lamps; dielectric barrier device array electrodes; low temperature nonequilibrium plasma; nanoporous aluminum oxide; neon plasma; plasma cylinders; plasma sheets; Aluminum oxide; Chemicals; Dielectric devices; Dielectric materials; Electrodes; Fabrics; Microcavities; Nanoporous materials; Plasma devices; Wire; Microcavities; microplasmas; plasma sheets; wire fabric;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2008.926953

Filename

4599080