Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

DOI

10.3390/plasma2040030

Publication Title

Plasma

Volume

2

Issue

4

Pages

380-386

Abstract

In this paper the generation and diagnostics of a reduced pressure (300 mTorr to 3 Torr) plasma generated inside an electrodeless containment vessel/chamber are presented. The plasma is ignited by a guided ionization wave emitted by a low temperature pulsed plasma jet. The diagnostics techniques include Intensified Charge Coupled Device (ICCD) imaging, emission spectroscopy, and Langmuir probe. The reduced-pressure discharge parameters measured are the magnitude of the electric field, the plasma electron number density and temperature, and discharge expansion speed.

Rights

© 2019 by the author.

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Original Publication Citation

Laroussi, M. (2019). Ignition of a plasma discharge inside an electrodeless chamber: Methods and characteristics. Plasma, 2(4), 380-386. https://doi.org/10.3390/plasma2040030

ORCID

0000-0001-6871-9001 (Laroussi)

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