Ionization wave propagation on a micro cavity plasma array

Details Ionization wave propagation on a micro cavity plasma array Ionization wave propagation on a micro cavity plasma array

2011-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/1104.5579v2

Physics

Plasma Physics

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3647978

Microcavity plasma arrays of inverse pyramidal cavities have been fabricated in p-Si wafers. Each cavity acts as a microscopic dielectric barrier discharge. Operated at atmospheric pressure in argon and excited with high voltage at about 10 kHz, each cavity develops a localized microplasma. Experiments have shown a strong interaction of individual cavities, leading to the propagation of wave-like optical emission structures along the surface of the array. This phenomenon is numerically investigated using computer simulation. The observed ionization wave propagates with a speed of about 5 km/s, which agrees well the experimental findings. It is found that the wave propagation is due to sequential contributions of a drift of electrons followed by drift of ions between cavities seeded by photoemission of electrons by the plasma in adjacent cavities.

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