Numerical modeling of the effect of the level of nitrogen impurities in a helium parallel plate dielectric barrier discharge

Plasma Sources Science and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Lazarou, C ^a   Koukounis, D ^a   Chiper, A S ^b   Costin, C ^b   Topala, I ^b   Georghiou, G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pressure plasmas; Dielectric barrier discharge; Low temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; FLOW CONTROL; HELIUM; IONS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN PLASMA; PLASMA SOURCES; TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMAS; AXISYMMETRIC PLASMAS; DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGES; DISCHARGE CHARACTERISTICS; ION SPECIES; LOW TEMPERATURES; NITROGEN IMPURITY; PARALLEL PLATES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84937546751     PISSN: 09630252     EISSN: 13616595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/24/3/035012     Document Type: Article

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