Polyethylene terephthalate surface modification by filamentary and homogeneous dielectric barrier discharges in air

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 659-667

  Fang, Zhi ^a   Lin, Jinguo ^a   Yang, Hao ^a   Qiu, Yuchang ^b   Kuffel, Edmund ^c  

^a NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dielectric barrier discharge (DBD); Filamentary DBD; Homogeneous DBD; Nonthermal plasma; Surface modification

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGE (DBD); FILAMENTARY DBD; HOMOGENEOUS DBD; NONTHERMAL PLASMA; SURFACE MODIFICATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONTACT ANGLE; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLOW CONTROL; GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; LIGHTNING; OXYGEN; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PLASMAS; POLYESTERS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE DISCHARGES; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACE TREATMENT; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 67349177314     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2009.2015322     Document Type: Article

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