Journal article
Non-equilibrium plasma in liquid water: dynamics of generation and quenching
Plasma sources science & technology, v 20(2), p024003
01 Apr 2011
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Abstract
In most cases, the electric breakdown of liquids is initiated by the application of high electric field on the electrode, followed by rapid propagation and branching of plasma channels. Typically plasmas are only considered to exist through the ionization of gases and typical production of plasmas in liquids generates bubbles through heating or via cavitation and sustains the plasmas within those bubbles. The question arises: is it possible to ionize the liquid without cracking and void formation?
To answer this question we used a pulsed power system with 32-220 kV pulse amplitude, 0.5-12 ns pulse duration, 150 ps rise time. The discharge cell had a point-to-plate geometry with a tip diameter of 100 mu m. These parameters allowed us to observe non-equilibrium plasma generation. The measurements were performed with the help of a 4Picos ICCD camera. It was found that the discharge in liquid water forms on a picosecond time scale. The increase of emission intensity and plasma formation took 200-300 ps. The diameter of the excited region near the tip of the high-voltage electrode was similar to 1 mm. After this initial stage emission rapidly decreased and the plasma region became almost invisible after 500 ps. The absence of emission during the rest of the pulse is explained by a decrease of the electrical field on the boundary of the conductive zone.
Thus we have demonstrated the possibility of formation of non-equilibrium plasma in the liquid phase and investigated the dynamics of excitation and quenching of non-equilibrium plasma in liquid water.
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- Title
- Non-equilibrium plasma in liquid water: dynamics of generation and quenching
- Creators
- Andrey Starikovskiy - Princeton UniversityYong Yang - Drexel UniversityYoung I. Cho - Drexel UniversityAlexander Fridman - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Plasma sources science & technology, v 20(2), p024003
- Publisher
- Iop Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 7
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000290719900004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-79953718456
- Other Identifier
- 991019167444104721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Physics, Fluids & Plasmas