Battery-operated, planar-geometry microplasma on a postage-stamp size chip: Some fundamentals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8024, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Weagent, S ^a   Karanassios, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Battery operation; Microplasma; Microsamples; Optical emission spectrometry; Rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

BATTERY-OPERATION; EXCITATION TEMPERATURE; MICRO-PLASMAS; MICROPLASMA DEVICES; MICROSAMPLES; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; POSTAGE STAMPS; SPECTRAL EMISSION;

METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; QUARTZ; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SPECTROMETRY;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 80052758958     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.884329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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