TY - JOUR

T1 - Study on hairpin-shaped argon plasma jets resonantly excited by microwave pulses at atmospheric pressure

AU - Chen, Zhaoquan

AU - Xia, Guangqing

AU - Zou, Changlin

AU - Li, Ping

AU - Hu, Yelin

AU - Ye, Qiubo

AU - Eliseev, S.

AU - Stepanova, O.

AU - Saifutdinov, A. I.

AU - Kudryavtsev, A. A.

AU - Liu, Minghai

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.

PY - 2015/7/14

Y1 - 2015/7/14

N2 - In the present study, atmospheric pressure argon plasma jets driven by lower-power pulsed microwaves have been proposed with a type of hairpin resonator. The plasma jet plume demonstrates distinctive characteristics, like arched plasma pattern and local plasma bullets. In order to understand how the hairpin resonator works, electromagnetic simulation of the electric field distribution and self-consistent fluid simulation of the interaction between the enhanced electric field and the pulse plasma plume are studied. Simulated spatio-temporal distributions of the electric field, the electron temperature, the electron density, and the absorbed power density have been sampled, respectively. The experimental and simulated results together suggest that the driving mechanism of the hairpin resonator works in the multiple electromagnetic modes of transmission line and microwave resonator, while the local plasma bullets are resonantly generated by local enhanced electric field of surface plasmon polaritons. Moreover, it should be noticed that the radian of the arched plasma plume is mainly affected by the input power and gas flow rate, respectively.

AB - In the present study, atmospheric pressure argon plasma jets driven by lower-power pulsed microwaves have been proposed with a type of hairpin resonator. The plasma jet plume demonstrates distinctive characteristics, like arched plasma pattern and local plasma bullets. In order to understand how the hairpin resonator works, electromagnetic simulation of the electric field distribution and self-consistent fluid simulation of the interaction between the enhanced electric field and the pulse plasma plume are studied. Simulated spatio-temporal distributions of the electric field, the electron temperature, the electron density, and the absorbed power density have been sampled, respectively. The experimental and simulated results together suggest that the driving mechanism of the hairpin resonator works in the multiple electromagnetic modes of transmission line and microwave resonator, while the local plasma bullets are resonantly generated by local enhanced electric field of surface plasmon polaritons. Moreover, it should be noticed that the radian of the arched plasma plume is mainly affected by the input power and gas flow rate, respectively.

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U2 - 10.1063/1.4926782

DO - 10.1063/1.4926782

M3 - Article

VL - 118

SP - 023307

JO - Journal of Applied Physics

JF - Journal of Applied Physics

SN - 0021-8979

IS - 2

M1 - 023307

ER -