Characteristics of atmospheric room-temperature argon plasma streams produced using a dielectric barrier discharge generator with a cylindrical screwlike inner electrode

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2172-2178

  Nie, Qiu Yue ^a   Yang, An ^a,b,c   Wang, Zhi Bin ^a   Li, He Ping ^a   Zhang, Xi Zheng ^b,c   Bao, Cheng Yu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Argon plasma stream; atmospheric pressure gas discharge; cylindrical screwlike inner electrode configuration; dielectric barrier discharge (DBD)

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; ARGON PLASMAS; DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGE PLASMAS; DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGES; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GAS DISCHARGE; GAS-DISCHARGE PLASMAS; HEAT-SENSITIVE MATERIALS; INITIAL STAGES; INNER-ELECTRODES; LOW GAS TEMPERATURE; NUMBER DENSITY; PLASMA STREAMS; RADIAL DIRECTION; REACTIVE SPECIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

ARGON; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLOW CONTROL; GAS DISCHARGE TUBES; PLASMA THEORY; SCREWS;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 84866253261     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2012.2208125     Document Type: Article

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