2014 Spatially resolved spectroscopic diagnostics such as plasma-induced emission, laser-induced fluorescence and laser optogalvanic spectroscopy are used to characterize the cathode sheath and the negative glow of an abnormal glow dc discharge in nitrogen. These diagnostics provide local information on the excitation and ionization functions, on the concentrations of ions and on the rotational...

Water solutions with electrical conductivities ranging from that of the deionized water up to 2 S/m have been electrosprayed in air through narrow silica tubes. Results show unambiguously that steady cone jets of water in air without the assistance of glow discharge can be formed for the range of electrical conductivities we have explored. The absence of corona discharge has been proven not onl...

Stochastic resonance (SR) has been studied experimentally in a glow discharge plasma. For the SR phenomena, it is observed that a superimposed subthreshold periodic signal can be recovered via stochastic modulations of the discharge voltage. In the present experiments, induction of SR is quantified using the absolute mean difference (AMD). Comparison of the AMD techniques with respect to cross-...

In dc glow discharge dusty plasmas, the formation of dust acoustic waves is a commonly observed phenomenon. Experiments in the dusty plasma experiment device produce naturally occurring dust acoustic waves with frequencies f N 5 to 25 Hz and phase velocities of Vph N 0.5 to 10 cm/s. Through the use of particle image velocimetry techniques, particle motion in the vicinity of the wavefronts is id...

Emission spectra of constituent gas species from glow discharge plasmas using argon-helium, krypton-helium, argon-krypton, and krypton-argon gas mixtures were analyzed to elucidate collisional energy transfer between these gas species occurring in the plasma. In the argon-helium mixed gas plasma, the enhancement or quenching of particular Ar II lines was observed when helium was added to an arg...

Electrolyte Cathode Discharge (ELCAD) spectrometry, a novel sensitive multielement direct analytical method for metal traces in aqueous solutions, was introduced in 1993 as a new sensing principle. Since then several works have tried to develop an operational mechanism for this exotic atmospheric glow plasma technique, however these attempts cannot be combined into a valid model description. In...

Emission spectroscopy analysis and imaging technique were used to study the microplasma phenomena. The microplasma discharge in Ar and N2/Ar was analyzed along the discharge gap area and also for specific periods of time during the discharge. Microplasma showed characteristics specific with an atmospheric glow discharge: positive column, Faraday dark space and negative glow. Spatial and tempora...

The characteristics of post-cathode plasma maintained by a self-made DC short glow-discharge generator with grid electrodes were measured optical emission spectroscopy. discharge existed in an abnormal glow mode at voltage 250–400 V and helium pressure 3–15 Torr gap 3 mm. results indicate that the intensity distribution atom spectral lines space differs from post-anode space. temperature electr...