Self-pulsing of a micro thin cathode discharge
Plasma Physics
2012-08-21 v2 Computational Physics
Abstract
Microplasmas operated at atmospheric pressure show a number of peculiar dynamic phenomena. One of these phenomena is self-pulsing, which is characterized by intrinsic pulsing behavior of a DC driven plasma discharge. This work focuses on the numerical simulation of self-pulsing in a micro thin cathode discharge operated in atmospheric pressure argon. By means of a hybrid plasma model we show self-pulsing of the discharge in the expected MHz frequency range and described its actual origin.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1105.0347,
title = {Self-pulsing of a micro thin cathode discharge},
author = {Alexander Wollny and Markus Gebhardt and Torben Hemke and Ralf Peter Brinkmann and Thomas Mussenbrock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.0347},
year = {2012}
}