Nonequilibrium Plasma Research

Abstract

We report novel measurement techniques and also validate other methods which permit to make absolute quantitative measurement of gas temperature, radical density, UV intensities, plasma power deposition efficiency, sheath electric field, ionic and neutral species formed by electron and photon energy transfer to the medium. The quantitative measurements include hair pin resonator for electron density, diode laser absorption for metastable line density, two-photon laser induced fluorescence (LIF) for atom density measurement, and mass spectrometric measurements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA528994

Entities

People

  • Biswa. N. Ganguly

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Dissociation
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Glow Discharges
  • Laser Diodes
  • Laser Induced Fluorescence
  • Lasers
  • Measurement
  • Repetition Rate
  • Spectroscopy

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Microelectronics