Experimental investigation of ionization front propagating in a 28 GHz gyrotron beam: Observation of plasma structure and spectroscopic measurement of gas …

K Tabata, Y Harada, Y Nakamura… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Atmospheric millimeter-wave discharge was investigated experimentally using a 28 GHz
gyrotron. The propagation velocity of an ionization front, plasma structure, and vibrational …

[HTML][HTML] Electron density and gas density measurements in a millimeter-wave discharge

SC Schaub, JS Hummelt, WC Guss, MA Shapiro… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Electron density and neutral gas density have been measured in a non-equilibrium air
breakdown plasma using optical emission spectroscopy and two-dimensional laser …

Gas heating effects on the formation and propagation of a microwave streamer in air

K Kourtzanidis, F Rogier, JP Boeuf - Journal of Applied Physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The development of microwave plasma streamers at 110 GHz in atmospheric pressure air is
numerically investigated taking into account the intense gas heating and its effects on the …

Study of the microwave streamer evolution using a new semi-analytical model

VG Brovkin, PV Vedenin - Journal of Applied Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
A microwave (MW) plasma channel (filament, plasmoid, and plasma dipole) shows promise
for its applications for off-body non-electrode modification of a gas flow (plasma …

Plasma fluid modeling of microwave streamers: Approximations and accuracy

E Arcese, F Rogier, JP Boeuf - Physics of Plasmas, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Fluid models of microwave streamers at 110 GHz in atmospheric pressure air predict the
formation of filamentary plasma patterns that show a good qualitative agreement with …

94 GHz microplasma sustained by a photonic crystal

J Hopwood - Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A photonic crystal (PhC) with a single vacancy sustains an argon microplasma at 94 GHz.
The PhC consists of a 7× 13 array of small alumina rods, each 250 μm in radius. The PhC …

Simulation study on nitrogen vibrational and translational temperature in air breakdown plasma generated by 110 GHz focused microwave pulse

W Yang, Q Zhou, Z Dong - Physics of Plasmas, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We report a simulation study on nitrogen vibrational and translational temperature in 3 μs
pulse 110 GHz microwave air breakdown at pressure from 1 Torr to 100 Torr. The one …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical simulation of electromagnetic-wave interference induced by ionization-front of millimeter-wave discharge at subcritical conditions and application to …

S Suzuki, M Takahashi - Journal of Applied Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
A standing wave induced in front of the ionization-front of a millimeter-wave discharge was
numerically investigated to develop an interferometric discharge structure identification …

Analysis and characterization of microwave plasma generated with rectangular all-dielectric resonators

K Kourtzanidis, LL Raja - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on a computational modeling study of small scale plasma discharge formation
with rectangular dielectric resonators (DR). An array of rectangular dielectric slabs …

Accelerated simulation of microwave breakdown in gases on Xeon Phi based cluster-application to self-organized plasma pattern formation

B Chaudhury, A Gupta, H Shah, S Bhadani - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Modeling and simulation of high power microwave (HPM) breakdown, involving complex
coupling between high frequency electromagnetic wave and plasma, is a computationally …