Journal
PLASMA PROCESSES AND POLYMERS
Volume 9, Issue 10, Pages 955-967Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/ppap.201200028
Keywords
atmospheric pressure glow discharges (APGD); fiber-optics; optical emission spectroscopy (OES); thermal properties; thermometry
Funding
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Canada Research Chairs program
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Atmospheric pressure (AP) dielectric barrier discharges (DBDs) are increasingly used to treat thermally-sensitive materials. Reliable measurements of the kinetic gas temperature, T, are therefore of capital importance. Spectroscopically determined rotational temperatures, Trot, are often tacitly assumed to be equal to T. Here, we measured T with fibre-optic instrumentation that is a priori immune towards high voltages and high-frequency electromagnetic fields generally encountered in plasmas. Finding Trot?>?T in AP glow discharge (APGD) DBDs in He and Ne, we believe that Trot?approximate to?T only during the short (approximate to mu s) current peaks that characterize APGD. Therefore, T represents the time-averaged gas temperature; calorimetric measurements using a thermocouple buried in an electrode support this view.
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