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Lifetime of Cathode Spots on the Surface of Titanium upon Excitation of a Microplasma Discharge

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The structure of glow of the microplasma discharge (MPD) initiated in vacuum by a pulsed flow of external plasma on the surface of a titanium sample covered by a native-oxide film with a thickness of 2–6 nm was studied experimentally. When plasma with a density of 1013 cm–3 and electron temperature of 10 eV interacts with the surface of the sample that is held under negative potential of –400 V relative to the plasma potential, the outer surface of the oxide film acquires a positive electric charge as a result of exposure to the flux of plasma ions. In the process, strong electric field of about 4 MV/cm is induced inside the dielectric film. An electric breakdown between the charged film surface and the metal initiates a microplasma discharge on the surface of titanium. The integral glow of the microplasma discharge on the macroscopic scale represents a branched structure of the dendrite type that consists of a large number of bright “dot” formations, i.e., cathode spots localized on the metal surface with a luminous halo around them. A fragment of the titanium surface with an area of 0.5 × 0.4 mm2 in the region of cathode spots was studied by means of the high-speed IMACON-468 photo-framing camera. Based on analysis of the optical glow of the cathode spots in seven consecutive images captured by the photo-framing camera with the exposure time of each frame equal to 100 ns and the frame interval of 400 ns, the expected “lifetime” of the cathode spots was calculated and found to be in the range of 0.5 ± 0.2 μs. The average diameter of the cathode spots determined from the spatial distribution of the microdischarge glow was found to be about 16 ± 4 μm, while the average size of the luminous halo around each individual cathode spot reached 100 μm.

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Ivanov, V.A., Konyzhev, M.E., Kamolova, T.I. et al. Lifetime of Cathode Spots on the Surface of Titanium upon Excitation of a Microplasma Discharge. Plasma Phys. Rep. 49, 394–402 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X22602085

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