Effects of oxygen radicals in low-pressure surface-wave plasma on sterilization

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Nagatsu, Masaaki ^a   Terashita, Fumie ^a   Nonaka, Hiroyuki ^a   Xu, Lei ^a   Nagata, Toshi ^b   Koide, Yukio ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; IRRADIATION; OXYGEN; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE WAVES;

CHEMICAL ETHCHING; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS; OXYGEN RADICALS; SURFACE-WAVE OXYGEN PLASMA;

STERILIZATION (CLEANING);

EID: 20844463749     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1931050     Document Type: Article

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