Effect of nano- to millisecond pulse on dielectric barrier discharges

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 647-652

  Lu, XinPei ^a   Xiong, Qing ^a   Xiong, ZiLan ^a   Xian, YuBin ^a   Zhou, Fei ^a   Hu, Jing ^a   Gong, WeiWei ^a   Zhou, ChangLin ^a   Tang, ZhiYuan ^a   Jiang, ZhongHe ^a   Pan, Yuan ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pressure plasma; Dielectric barrier discharge (DBD); High speed photograph; Nonequilibrium plasma

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; AR PLASMAS; ATMOSPHERIC-PRESSURE PLASMA; DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGE (DBD); DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGES; DIFFUSE PLASMA; DIRECT-CURRENT; DISCHARGE CURRENTS; HIGH-SPEED; HIGH-SPEED PHOTOGRAPH; NONEQUILIBRIUM PLASMA; PULSED DC VOLTAGE; PULSEWIDTH; PULSEWIDTHS; VOLTAGE PULSE;

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; FLOW CONTROL; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PLASMAS;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 67349196766     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2009.2015321     Document Type: Article

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