Initiation and microbial-disinfection characteristics of wide-gap atmospheric-pressure glow discharge using soft X-ray ionization

Plasma Processes and Polymers

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 120-126

  Ohkawa, Hiroshi ^a   Akitsu, Tetsuya ^a   Tsuji, Masao ^b   Kimura, Hideo ^b   Fukushima, Kinpei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b Yamanashi Prefectural Industrial Technology Center   (Japan)

^c YAMATO LAB TECH Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspergillus niger; Atmospheric pressure glow discharges (APGD); Bacterial spores; Escherichia coli; Salmonella enteritidis; X ray

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLOW DISCHARGES; IONIZATION; LIGHT EMISSION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; X RAYS;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE GLOW DISCHARGE (APGD); BACTERIAL SPORES; INITIATION-DISINFECTION; MICROBIAL-DISINFECTION; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SOFT X-RAY IONIZATION;

DISINFECTION;

EID: 23044435349     PISSN: 16128850     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppap.200400036     Document Type: Article

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