Active species downstream of an Ar-O2 surface-wave microwave discharge for biomedicine, surface treatment and nanostructuring

Plasma Sources Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Kutasi, Kinga ^a   Guerra, Vasco ^b   Sá, Paulo A ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SPECIES; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DISSOCIATION DEGREE; FLOWING AFTERGLOWS; IODINE LASERS; ION DENSITY; LOW PRESSURES; MAIN COMPONENT; METASTABLE MOLECULES; MICROWAVE DISCHARGE; MIXTURE COMPOSITIONS; NANO-STRUCTURING; OPERATING CONDITION; OXYGEN SPECIES; PENNING IONIZATION; RESONANT STATE; THEORETICAL MODELS; TIME-DEPENDENT DENSITY; UV-EMITTING;

ATOMS; CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMICAL LASERS; DISSOCIATION; IODINE; ION EXCHANGE; MICROWAVE TUBES; MIXTURES; MOLECULES; SURFACE TREATMENT; SURFACE WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 79957703002     PISSN: 09630252     EISSN: 13616595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/20/3/035006     Document Type: Article

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