Mechanisms of Ionizational Nonequilibrium in Air Plasmas

Abstract

The goal of this MURI program was to discover physical mechanisms for significantly reducing the power budget required to create and sustain large volume atmospheric air plasmas at temperature below 2000K with electron number densities of the order of 10 13 cm -3. The Stanford consortium Experimentally demonstrated the generation of over 10 12 electrons/cm 3 in atmospheric pressure air at 2000K, with an average power of 12 W/cm 3, i.e. 250 times smaller than a DC discharge at 10 12/cm3.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA409196

Entities

People

  • Charles H. Kruger

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Barometric Pressure
  • Charged Particles
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Demography
  • Electron Density
  • Electron Energy
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geometry
  • Glow Discharges
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Scattering
  • Spectroscopy
  • Thermodynamics
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics