This study investigated the effect of plasma treatment on changes of surface wettability of wood flooring from two Brazilian tropical species, Hymenaea spp. (rode locus) and Tabebuia spp. (lapacho). Wood flooring samples were plasma treated at low pressure in a helium atmosphere. Energy level was set at 100 W and four glow discharge times (5, 15, 30 and 45 s) were tested. Changes in wettability...

The Coulomb expansion of a thin cloud charged dust particles was observed experimentally, in plasma afterglow. This occurs due to mutual repulsion among positively particles, after electrons and ions have escaped the chamber volume. In experiment, two-dimensional initially levitated glow-discharge plasma. power then switched off produce afterglow conditions. subsequent fall slowed by reversing ...

Recently there has been considerable interest in atmospheric discharges operating in a glow discharge mode i.e. with a spatial and sheath structure similar to that of low pressure glow discharges [1,2,3]. Here spectroscopy has been used to characterise an atmospheric pressure glow discharge (APGD), operating with either dry air, argon or helium gas flowing through the inter-electrode space and ...

The formation of negative ions produced in a negative point-to-plane corona discharge fed by a Ar/N2/CH4 gas mixture has been studied using mass spectrometry. The measurements were carried out in flowing regime at ambient temperature and a reduced pressure of 460 mbar. The CN− anion has been found to be the most dominant negative ion in the discharge and is believed to be the precursor of heavi...

The dielectric-barrier configuration is commonly used to generate uniform, highly non-equilibrium atmospheric-pressure glow discharges. Although recent research has improved our understanding of these discharges, several questions relating to the structure and transient characteristics of the discharge remain to be answered. We employ a self-consistent, one-dimensional, model to simulate these ...

A numerical model of a low pressure parallel plate rf glow discharge is presented based on a self-consistent formulation of the energy-momentum conservation equations for electrons, the continuity equations for both electrons and ions, and Poisson’s equation. Various explicit finite-difference numerical methods are discussed in terms of stability and overshoot properties. Stability consideratio...