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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 54, Issue 30, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/abfd6c
Keywords
nitrogen plasma; ro-vibrational excitation; CARS; nanosecond discharge; APPJ; vibrational distribution function
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- DFG (German Science Foundation) within the framework of the CRC (Collaborative Research Centre) 1316 'Transient atmospheric plasmas-from plasmas to liquids to solids'
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The study focuses on the ro-vibrational dynamics in molecular (near)-atmospheric pressure plasmas to investigate the influence of vibrational excited molecules on discharge properties. Results show good agreement between measured vibrational excitation and theoretical predictions, with resonant electron collisions playing a key role during discharge. The development of vibrational excited states is influenced by vibrational-vibrational transfer and losses at the walls on different timescales.
The understanding of the ro-vibrational dynamics in molecular (near)-atmospheric pressure plasmas is essential to investigate the influence of vibrational excited molecules on the discharge properties. In a companion paper Kuhfeld et al (2021 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 54 305204), results of ro-vibrational coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) measurements for a nanosecond pulsed plasma jet consisting of two conducting molybdenum electrodes with a gap of 1 mm in nitrogen at 200 mbar are presented. Here, those results are discussed and compared to theoretical predictions based on rate coefficients for the relevant processes found in the literature. It is found, that during the discharge the measured vibrational excitation agrees well with predictions obtained from the rates for resonant electron collisions calculated by Laporta et al (2014 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 23 065002). The predictions are based on the electric field during the discharge, measured by electric field induced second harmonic generation Kuhfeld et al (2021 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 54 305204), Lepikhin et al (2020 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 54 055201) and the electron density, which is deduced from the field and mobility data calculated with Bolsig+ Hagelaar and Pitchford (2005 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 14 722-33). In the afterglow a simple kinetic simulation for the vibrational subsystem of nitrogen is performed and it is found, that the populations of vibrational excited states develop according to vibrational-vibrational transfer on timescales of a few microseconds, while the development on timescales of some hundred microseconds is determined by the losses at the walls. No significant influence of electronically excited states on the populations of the vibrational states visible in the CARS measurements (v less than or similar to 7) was observed.
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