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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 115, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5129778
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51577098]
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Electric field distribution is critically important for quantitative insights into the physics of nonequilibrium plasma like corona. To analyze the electric field as well as the ion flow (space charge) distribution under DC corona discharges, the ion flow model has been widely adopted; Kaptzov's assumption, which states that the steady state electric field at the conductor surface remains at the corona onset value, serves as a boundary condition. In this Letter, we investigate the electric field distribution under DC corona discharges between coaxial cylindrical electrodes in ambient air by electric field induced second harmonic generation with nanosecond pulse laser beams. The electric field distribution (with or without the corona discharge) is obtained. By comparing the measurements with the results predicted by the ion flow model for the negative corona discharge, it is found that the electric field at the conductor surface is proportional to the current density of the corona discharge with a negative constant of proportionality. Therefore, for negative corona discharges, Kaptzov's assumption is valid only when the discharge current approaches zero or is small.
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