Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-5ws7s Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-03-07T23:58:28.371Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Experimental evidence of Penning ionization role in a low pressure direct current nitrogen glow discharge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2004

J. Nagai ,
J. C. Thomaz ,
J. Amorim  and
G. Baravian
J. Nagai
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Centro Técnico Aeroespacial, 12228-900 São José dos Campos, Brazil
J. C. Thomaz
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Centro Técnico Aeroespacial, 12228-900 São José dos Campos, Brazil Laboratório de Aferição e Instrumentação Meteorológica, Divisão de Meio Ambiente e Estudos Climáticos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, 12630-000 Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil
J. Amorim*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Centro Técnico Aeroespacial, 12228-900 São José dos Campos, Brazil Laboratório de Aferição e Instrumentação Meteorológica, Divisão de Meio Ambiente e Estudos Climáticos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, 12630-000 Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil
G. Baravian
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, Associé au CNRS, UMR 8578, Bât. 210 Université Paris XI, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
*
[email protected]
Get access

Abstract

On the basis of experimental measurements of the electric field (which varies from 5 to 60 V/cm) and the N-atom relative density variation (one order of magnitude), mechanisms of ionization and dissociation in direct current glow discharges are discussed for pressures ranging from 0.5 to 5.0 torr and current between 1 and 50 mA. It is shown that: (i) at low pressure (E/N > 40 Td) ionization is governed by electronic impact and Penning reactions; (ii) at high pressure (E/N < 40 Td) the ionization is mainly governed by Penning reactions.

Keywords

Type
Research Article
Information
The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , April 2004 , pp. 53 - 58
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2004

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

De Benedictis, S., Dilecce, G., Simek, M., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 31, 1197 (1998) CrossRef
A. Grill, Cold Plasma in Materials Fabrication (Piscataway, NL:IEEE, 1994)
Ricard, A., Gordiets, B.F., Pinheiro, M.J., Ferreira, C.M., Baravian, G., Amorim, J., Bockel, S., Michel, H., Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. 4, 87 (1998) CrossRef
Ferreira, C.M., Tatarova, E., Guerra, V., Gordiets, B.F., Henriques, J., Dias, F.M., Pinheiro, M., IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 31, 645 (2003) CrossRef
Thomaz, J.C., Amorim, J., Souza, C.F., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 32, 3208 (1999) CrossRef
J. Amorim, G. Baravian, J. Jolly, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 33, R51 (Review Article) (2000)
Amorim, J., Baravian, G., Ricard, A., Plasma Chem. Plasma Proc. 15, 721 (1995) CrossRef
Guerra, V., Loureiro, J., Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 6, 361 (1997) CrossRef
Brunet, H., Vincent, P., Rocca-Serra, J., J. Appl. Phys. 54, 4951 (1983) CrossRef
Brunet, H., Rocca-Serra, J., J. Appl. Phys. 57, 1574 (1985) CrossRef
Berdyshev, A.V., Kochetov, I.V., Napartovich, A.P., Sov. J. Plasma Phys. 14, 438 (1988)
Polak, L.S., Sergeev, P.A., Slovetskii, D.I., High Temp. 15, 13 (1977)
Yu, B. Golubovskii, V.M. Telezhko, High Temp. 22, 340 (1984)
Bol'shakova, L.G., Golubovskii, Yu B., Telezhko, V.M., Stoyanov, D.G., Sov. Phys. Tech. Phys. 35, 665 (1990)
Loureiro, J., Sá, P.A., Guerra, V., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 34, 1769 (2001) CrossRef
V. Guerra, Ph.D. Thesis, Lisbon Technic University 1998
Guerra, V., Galiaskarov, E., Loureiro, J., Chem. Phys. Lett. 371, 576 (2003) CrossRef
Capitelli, M., Dilonardo, M., Chem. Phys. 24, 417 (1977) CrossRef
Cernogora, G., Hochard, L., Touzeau, M., Ferreira, C.M., J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Phys. 14, 2977 (1981) CrossRef
Gordiets, B., Ferreira, C.M., Pinheiro, M.J., Ricard, A., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 7, 363 (1998)
Burns, D.J., Golden, D.E., Gaillardt, D.W., J. Chem. Phys. 65, 2616 (1976) CrossRef
Piper, L.G., J. Chem. Phys. 90, 7087 (1989) CrossRef
D.I. Slovetskii, Chemical Reaction Mechanisms in Non-equilibrium Plasma (Nauka, Moscow, 1980) (in Russian)
Popa, S.D., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 29, 411 (1996) CrossRef
Shaub, W.M., Nibler, J.W., Harvey, A.B., J. Chem. Phys. 67, 1883 (1977) CrossRef
Ershov, A., Augustyniak, E., Borysow, J., Phys. Rev. A 50, 2341 (1994) CrossRef