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Modeling characterisation of a bipolar pulsed discharge

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DONKO Zoltan ZAJÍČKOVÁ Lenka SUGIMOTO Satoshi HARUMNINGTYAS Anjar Anggraini HAMAGUCHI Satoshi

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Plasma Sources Science and Technology
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Faculty of Science

Citation
web https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/abb321
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/abb321
Keywords pulsed waveform; kinetic simulation; numerical modeling
Description We apply particle based kinetic simulations to explore the characteristics of a low-pressure gas discharge driven by high-voltage (similar to kV) pulses with alternating polarity, with a duty cycle of approximate to 1% and a repetition rate of 5 kHz. The computations allow tracing the spatio-temporal development of several discharge characteristics, the potential and electric field distributions, charged particle densities and fluxes, the mean ion energy at the electrode surfaces, etc. As such discharges have important surface processing applications, e.g. in the treatment of artificial bones, we analyse the time-dependence of the flux and the mean energy of the ions reaching the electrode surfaces, which can be both conducting and dielectric. Our investigations are conducted for argon buffer gas in the 40-140 Pa pressure range, for 1-5 cm electrode gaps and voltage pulse amplitudes ranging between 600 V and 1200 V.
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