J 2006

An experimental study of high power microwave pulsed discharge in nitrogen

MEŠKO, Marcel, Zdeněk BONAVENTURA, Petr VAŠINA, Vít KUDRLE, Antonín TÁLSKÝ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

An experimental study of high power microwave pulsed discharge in nitrogen

Name in Czech

Experimentální studie vysokovýkonového mikrovlnného pulzního výboje v dusíku

Authors

MEŠKO, Marcel (703 Slovakia), Zdeněk BONAVENTURA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Petr VAŠINA (203 Czech Republic), Vít KUDRLE (203 Czech Republic), Antonín TÁLSKÝ (203 Czech Republic), David TRUNEC (203 Czech Republic), Zdeněk FRGALA (203 Czech Republic) and Jan JANČA (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Bristol, Institute of Physics Publishing, 2006, 0963-0252

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10305 Fluids and plasma physics

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.346

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/06:00015753

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000240655500037

Keywords in English

microwave discharge; pulsed discharge; nitrogen

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 6/6/2008 14:15, prof. Mgr. Vít Kudrle, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

We investigated a plasma excited by high power pulsed microwaves (MWs) (pulse duration 2.5 mikrosecond repetition rate 400 Hz, peak power 100 kW, frequency 9.4 GHz) in nitrogen at reduced pressure (pressure range 10-2000 Pa) with the aim of a better understanding of such types of discharge. The construction of the experimental device suppresses the plasmawall interactions and therefore the volume processes are predominant. To obtain the temporal evolution of the electron density we used two MW interferometers at frequencies of 15 and 35 GHz with dielectric rod waveguides which gives them the capability of localized measurements. We estimated the effective collision frequency from the absorption of a measurement beam. Time resolved optical emission spectroscopy of the 1st negative system and the 2nd positive system was carried out, too. Due to a high power input the discharge dynamics was fast and the steady state was typically reached in 1 mikrosecond. We found that the effective collision frequency has the same temporal behaviour as the 2nd positive system of N2, including a characteristic maximum at the beginning of the pulse.

In Czech

We investigated a plasma excited by high power pulsed microwaves (MWs) (pulse duration 2.5 mikrosecond, repetition rate 400 Hz, peak power 100 kW, frequency 9.4 GHz) in nitrogen at reduced pressure (pressure range 10-2000 Pa) with the aim of a better understanding of such types of discharge. The construction of the experimental device suppresses the plasmawall interactions and therefore the volume processes are predominant. To obtain the temporal evolution of the electron density we used two MW interferometers at frequencies of 15 and 35 GHz with dielectric rod waveguides which gives them the capability of localized measurements. We estimated the effective collision frequency from the absorption of a measurement beam. Time resolved optical emission spectroscopy of the 1st negative system and the 2nd positive system was carried out, too. Due to a high power input the discharge dynamics was fast and the steady state was typically reached in 1 mikrosecond. We found that the effective collision frequency has the same temporal behaviour as the 2nd positive system of N2, including a characteristic maximum at the beginning of the pulse.

Links

GA202/06/0776, research and development project
Name: Pokročilý výzkum a vývoj zdrojů nízkoteplotního plazmatu
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
MSM0021622411, plan (intention)
Name: Studium a aplikace plazmochemických reakcí v neizotermickém nízkoteplotním plazmatu a jeho interakcí s povrchem pevných látek
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Study and application of plasma chemical reactions in non-isothermic low temperature plasma and its interaction with solid surface