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Scaling of pulsed nanosecond capillary plasmas at different specific energy deposition

Yifei Zhu
Svetlana Starikovskaia
Natalia Yu Babaeva
Mark J Kushner

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Nano-second, capillary discharges (nCDs) are unique plasma sources in their ability to sustain high specific energy deposition ωdep approaching 10 eV/molecule in molecular gases. This high energy loading on short timescales produces both high plasma densities and high densities of molecular exited states. These high densities of electrons and excited states interact with each other during the early afterglow through electron collision quenching and associative ionization. In this paper we discuss results from a 2-dimensional computational investigation of a nCD sustained in air at a pressure of 28.5 mbar and with a voltage amplitude 20 kV. Discharges were investigated for two circuit configurations-a floating low voltage electrode and with the low voltage electrode connected to ground through a ballast resistor. The first configuration produced a single ionization wave from the high to low voltage electrode. The second produced converging ionization waves beginning at both electrodes. With a decrease of the tube radius, the velocity of the ionization fronts decreased while the shape of the ionization wave changed from the electron density being distributed smoothly in the radial direction, to being hollow shaped where there is a higher electron density near the tube wall. For sufficiently small tubes, the near-wall maxima merge to have the higher density on the axis of the capillary tube. In the early afterglow, the temporal and radial behavior of the N2(C 3 Πu) density is a sensitive function of ωdep due to electron collision quenching. These trends indicate that starting from ωdep ≥0.3 eV/molecule, it is necessary to take into account interactions of electrons with electronically excited species during the discharge and early afterglow.
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hal-03436909 , version 1 (19-11-2021)

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Yifei Zhu, Svetlana Starikovskaia, Natalia Yu Babaeva, Mark J Kushner. Scaling of pulsed nanosecond capillary plasmas at different specific energy deposition. Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2020, 29 (12), pp.125006. ⟨10.1088/1361-6595/abc413⟩. ⟨hal-03436909⟩
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