Close-packed arrays of plasma jets emanating from microchannels in a transparent polymer

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 40, Issue 11 PART1, 2012, Pages 2946-2950

  Sun, P P ^a   Cho, J H ^a   Park, C H ^b   Park, S J ^a   Eden, J G ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Hallym University Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Jet arrays; microchannel; microplasma jet

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AIR; CYLINDRICAL MICROCHANNELS; EXCITED SPECIES; FLEXIBLE POLYMERS; JET ARRAYS; JET LENGTH; MICRO-CHANNEL DEVICES; MICRO-PLASMA JET; PACKING DENSITY; PLUME LENGTH; STANDARD LITERS PER MINUTES; TRANSPARENT POLYMER;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; METAMATERIALS; PLASMA DEVICES;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 84870067170     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2012.2218130     Document Type: Article

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