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Plasma Investigations
The parameters of nonequilibrium microwave discharge in nitrogen in a tube in a rectangular waveguide
Yu. A. Lebedev,
V. A. Shakhatov A. V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Abstract:
Computer codes are developed for the processing of emission spectra of nonequilibrium plasma in nitrogen for the purpose of obtaining information about the translational
$T_g$ and rotational
$T_{\mathrm{rot}}$ temperatures, the populations of vibrational levels in the ground electron and electron-excited states, the electron energy distribution function, the electron concentration
$N_e$, and the electric field intensity
$E$. The computer codes are used to determine the parameters of microwave-discharge plasma in nitrogen in discharge systems of two types, namely, in a discharge tube (with a radius of
$1$ cm), which crosses a rectangular waveguide (plasmatron on the
$H_{10}$ wavelength, at a pressure of
$1.7$ torr and absorbed power density of
$1.5$ W/cm
$^3$), and in a discharge section of similar structure on the basis of prismatic resonator (at a pressure of
$1.0$ torr and absorbed power density of
$0.4$ W/cm
$^3$). The mechanisms of population of the
$\mathrm{N}_2(C^3\Pi_u)$ state are treated.
UDC:
533.9.01
PACS:
52.80.Pi Received: 08.12.2005