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Study on breakdown characteristics of a low-pressure dielectric barrier discharge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2007

YI-MING LING
YI-MING LING*
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210018, People's Republic of [email protected]
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Abstract

The breakdown characteristics of a low-frequency dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) at low pressure are investigated experimentally in He, Ne and Ar. The current waveform of this DBD, a series of pulses, is caused by the results of the electron avalanches under the action of the applied field and the quenching effect of the wall-charge field on the avalanches. Taking into consideration the diffusion loss of the charged particles in the breakdown processes, the experimental investigation and the theoretical analysis of its breakdown characteristics indicate that its breakdown voltage is higher than the calculation by the Paschen law and depends on the filled-gas pressure and the distance between the electrodes, instead of their product. The ion-induced secondary electron emission coefficient and the mean electron energy at the moment of breakdown can also be determined approximately by measuring the breakdown characteristics of the discharge tubes with different distances between the electrodes and combining the theoretical deductions. The experimental results and the theoretical analysis of the breakdown characteristics of this DBD are discussed.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 73 , Issue 3 , June 2007 , pp. 417 - 426
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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