Coupled sliding discharges: A scalable nonthermal plasma system utilizing positive and negative streamers on opposite sides of a dielectric layer

Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 871-886

  Malik, Muhammad Arif ^a   Jiang, Chunqi ^a,b   Dhali, Shirshak K ^b   Heller, Richard ^a   Schoenbach, Karl H ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled sliding discharges; Nanosecond discharges; Nitric oxide; Nonthermal plasma; Ozone; Shielded sliding discharges

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; NITRIC OXIDE; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMA THEORY;

MULTIPLE ELECTRODES; NANOSECOND DISCHARGE; NEGATIVE STREAMERS; NO CONCENTRATION; NONTHERMAL PLASMA; OZONE GENERATION; PLASMA TREATMENT; SLIDING DISCHARGES;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 84904044685     PISSN: 02724324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11090-014-9528-2     Document Type: Article

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