POLÁŠKOVÁ, Kateřina, David NEČAS, Lukáš DOSTÁL, Miloš KLÍMA, Pavel FIALA and Lenka ZAJÍČKOVÁ. Self-organization phenomena in cold atmospheric pressure plasma slit jet. Plasma Sources Science and Technology. IOP Publishing Ltd, 2022, vol. 31, No 12, p. 1-13. ISSN 0963-0252. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/acab82.
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Original name Self-organization phenomena in cold atmospheric pressure plasma slit jet
Authors POLÁŠKOVÁ, Kateřina (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), David NEČAS, Lukáš DOSTÁL, Miloš KLÍMA, Pavel FIALA and Lenka ZAJÍČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Plasma Sources Science and Technology, IOP Publishing Ltd, 2022, 0963-0252.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10305 Fluids and plasma physics
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW URL URL
Impact factor Impact factor: 3.800
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/22:00128318
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/acab82
UT WoS 000907216600001
Keywords in English radio frequency plasma jet; plasma filaments; fast camera imaging; image data processing; plasma treatment uniformity
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. Mgr. Lenka Zajíčková, Ph.D., učo 1414. Changed: 15/2/2023 18:19.
Abstract
The radio frequency plasma slit jet, which produces 150 mm wide streaming plasma outside the jet body, exhibits exciting self-organization phenomena that resemble the self-organized patterns of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) filaments. Similarly, as in DBD, the filaments are surrounded by an inhibition zone that does not allow two filaments to come closer to each other. With fast camera imaging, we observed the filamentary character of the discharge in all the studied gas feeds (Ar, Ar/N2, and Ar/O2). Still, the visual appearance of the filaments in the plasma and their interaction with a dielectric surface depended significantly on the gas feed. As the breakdown voltage in pure Ar is relatively low compared to the applied one, new filaments form frequently. Such newly created filaments disrupted the characteristic inter-filament distance, forcing the system to rearrange. The frequent ignition and decay processes in Ar led to short filament lifetimes (0.020–0.035 s) and their high jitter speed (0.9–1.7 m s−1), as determined with an image processing custom code based on Gwyddion libraries. The number of filaments was lower in the Ar/O2 and Ar/N2 mixtures. It was attributed to a loss of energy in the excitation of rotational and vibrational levels and oxygen electronegativity. Since the probability of low-current side discharges transitioning into the full plasma filaments was limited in these gas mixtures, the self-organized pattern was seldom disrupted, leading to lesser movement and longer lifetimes. Unlike in Ar or Ar/O2, the constricted filaments in Ar/N2 were surrounded by diffuse plasma plumes, likely connected to the presence of long-lived nitrogen species. We demonstrated in the polypropylene treatment that the self-organization phenomena affected the treatment uniformity.
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