Monitoring oxygen plasma treatment of polypropylene with optical emission spectroscopy

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1239-1246

  Kregar, Zlatko ^a   Bišćan, Marijan ^a   Milošević, Slobodan ^a   Vesel, Alenka ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Croatia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c International Postgraduate School   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Optical emission spectroscopy (OES); oxygen plasma; polypropylene

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; LIGHT EMISSION; OXYGEN; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; POLYPROPYLENES;

DIFFERENT PRESSURES; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPIES (OES); OPTICAL SPECTRA; OXYGEN PLASMA TREATMENTS; OXYGEN PLASMAS; SEMICRYSTALLINE POLYPROPYLENE; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85027932064     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2011.2123111     Document Type: Article

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