Discussion on Population Kinetics and Number Densities of Excited Species of Low-Pressure Discharge Nitrogen Plasma
Discussion on Population Kinetics and Number Densities of Excited Species of Low-Pressure Discharge Nitrogen Plasma
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10.1002/tee.22230
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发表时间:
2016-06-01
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1
通讯作者:
Nezu, Atsushi
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作者:
Akatsuka, Hiroshi;Shibata, Tomohiko;Nezu, Atsushi
A numerical model is constructed to calculate the number densities of some excited species of nitrogen in low-pressure discharge nitrogen plasma, together with simultaneous solution of the self-consistent electron energy distribution function and N-2-vibration distribution function. We consider species N-2(X), N-2(A), N-2(B), N-2(C), N-2(a), N-2(a'), N-2(+), N-4(+), N(S-4) and e(-). In addition to electron collisional reactions, diffusion losses and molecular relations are included. It is found that the ratio of number densities of N-2(B) and N-2(C) states can be a good measure of the electron kinetic temperature. The N-2(C) state is found to be almost in a corona equilibrium, whereas the N-2(B) state becomes mainly populated by N-2(X, v >= 6) + N-2(A) reaction and depopulated by collisional relaxation by the ground-state N-2(X) molecule. (C) 2016 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.