Spectral Investigation of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Column
LI Xue-chen, CHANG Yuan-yuan, XU Long-fei
Key Laboratory of Photo-Electronics Information Materials of Hebei Province, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
Abstract：Atmospheric pressure plasma column has many important applications in plasma stealth for aircraft. In the present paper, a plasma column with a length of 65 cm was generated in argon at atmospheric pressure by using dielectric barrier discharge device with water electrodes in coaxial configurations. The discharge mechanism of the plasma column was studied by optical method and the result indicates that a moving layer of light emission propagates in the upstream region. The propagation velocity of the plasma bullet is about 0.6×105 m·s-1 through optical measurement. Spectral intensity ratios as functions of the applied voltage and driving frequency were also investigated by spectroscopic method. The variation in spectral intensity ratio implies a change in the averaged electron energy. Results show that the averaged electron energy increases with the increase in the applied voltage and the driving frequency. These results have significant values for industrial applications of the atmospheric pressure discharge and have extensive application potentials in stealth for military aircraft.
Key words：Plasma column;Dielectric barrier discharge;Spectral method;Spectral intensity ratio
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