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Diagnostics of an AC driven atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma jet and its use for radially directed jet array

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An alternating current atmospheric pressure plasma jet is generated with noble gas or noble gas/oxygen admixture as working gas. A “core plasma filament” is observed at the center of the dielectric tube and extends to the plasma jet at higher peak-to-peak voltages. This type of plasma jet is believed to be of the same nature with the reported plasma bullet driven by pulsed DC power sources. Double current probes are used to assess the speed of the plasma bullet and show that the speed is around 104–105 m/s. The time dependence of the downstream bullet speed is attributed to the gas heating and in turn the increase of the reduced electric field E/N. Optical emission spectra show the dependence of helium and oxygen emission intensities on the concentration of oxygen additive in the carrier gas, with peak values found at 0.5% O2. Multiple radial jets are realized on dielectric tubes of different sizes. As a case study, one of these multi-jet devices is used to treat B. aureus on the inner surface of a plastic beaker and is shown to be more effective than a single jet.

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  1. Department of Applied Science and Technology, Saint Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ, USA

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  2. Center for Microplasma Science and Technology, Saint Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ, USA

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  3. Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

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Zhu, W., Wang, R. Diagnostics of an AC driven atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma jet and its use for radially directed jet array. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 226, 2965–2977 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60353-x

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