Microwave-energy coupling in a nitrogen-breakdown plasma
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 54 (3) , 1278-1283
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.332192
Abstract
Computer simulations of microwave coupling to a nitrogen-breakdown plasma have been performed at 25 Torr. Nonhydrodynamic ionization fronts are observed to propagate toward the radiation source under a variety of circumstances. Free-nitrogen-breakdown simulations in a spherical system show the propagation velocity of the breakdown wave can be as high as 5×106 cm/sec. An elementary theory is used for estimating the speed of the breakdown wave in one dimension. The results are in reasonable agreement with breakdown experiments.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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