Line broadening of the hydrogen Balmer lines provides a sensitive measure of the number and energy of excited hydrogen atoms in a glow discharge plasma. The width of the 656.5 nm Balmer α line emitted from gas discharge plasmas having atomized hydrogen from pure hydrogen alone, hydrogen with magnesium or strontium, a mixture of 10% hydrogen and helium, argon, krypton, or xenon, and a mixture of...

Small plasma spheroids are evidenced and analyzed in front of the electrodes of a capacitivelycoupled radio-frequency discharge in which dust particles are growing. These regions are characterized by a spherical shape, a slightly enhanced luminosity and are related to instabilities induced by the presence of dust particles. Several types of behaviors are identified and particularly their chaoti...

Excess heat generated in the glow discharge plasma electrolysis, first reported by Mizuno and Ohmori (1), has been studied by several researchers, both in Japan (2, 3, 4) and in other countries (5, 6, 7, 8). Most reports, but not all, confirmed generation of excess heat. Facing this situation we decided to replicate the most recent experiment (8) in which excess heat was reported to increase wi...

Jamesh, M., Boxman, R., Bilek, M., Kocer, C., Hu, T., Zhang, X., McKenzie, D., Chu, P. (2016). Effects of pulse voltage and deposition time on the adhesion strength of graded metal/carbon films deposited on bendable stainless steel foils by hybrid cathodic arc Glow discharge plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition. Applied Surface Science, 366, 535-544. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

wetability of biocompatible polymers can be improved by plasma surface modification. the purpose of this study was to surface modify an experimental poly (dimethylsiloxane) rubber (pdms) material in order to improve its wetability and biocompatibility. surface properties of the pdms were characterized using contact angles measurement for wetability analysis. samples of experimental silicone rub...

The use of the properties of the plasma generated inside the glow lamps or gas filled electron tube as an unconventional detection method for various physical effects was reported in several papers. For example in [1], [2] the experimental setups containing discharge tubes used to detect the external microwave field are presented. In this paper the effect of an external electrode on the electri...