The atmospheric-pressure plasma jet: A review and comparison to other plasma sources

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1685-1694

  Schütze, Andreas ^a   Jeong, James Y ^a   Babayan, Steven E ^a   Park, Jaeyoung ^b   Selwyn, Gary S ^b   Hicks, Robert F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pressure; Corona discharge; Dielectric barrier discharge; Plasma jet; Plasma torch; Thermal and nonthermal plasmas; Transferred arc

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC CORONA; PLASMA SOURCES; PLASMA TORCHES;

DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGES (DBD);

PLASMA JETS;

EID: 0032306958     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.747887     Document Type: Article

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