大气压等离子体炬电子密度的光谱诊断

利用空心针-板放电装置产生了大气压等离子体炬,采用光谱法测量了其内部及表面的电子密度. 向空心针中通入氩气,在大气环境中产生了长度为1cm的等离子体炬.实验分别测量了Hα谱线和ArⅠ(696.54nm)谱线,通过反卷积方法分离出其相应的Stark展宽,并由此计算了电子密度.结果发现,采用Hα谱线和ArⅠ(696.54nm)谱线Stark展宽计算得到的等离子体的电子密度分别为1.0×10¹⁵cm^－3和3.78×10^{15关键词： 等离子体炬 电子密度 气体温度 Stark展宽}     

SiH4激光等离子体内H谱线的线型研究

本工作利用光学多道分析仪(OMA Ⅲ)测量了脉冲TEA CO₂激光诱发的SiH₄等离子体内H Balmer系的H_α,H_σ和H_γ线的线型。结果表明,三条谱线的FWHM(半值全宽度)随跃迁上能级的主量子数的增加而增加,即△λ_1/2(H_α)<△λ_1/2(H_β)<△λ_1/2(H_γ)。通过对等离子体内各类加宽机制的讨论,得出等离子体内谱线的主要加宽机制为Stark加宽。由H_α线的实验线型与Stark加宽理论线型的拟合,得到等离子体的两个重要参量,平均电子密度N≈10¹⁷cm^-3,电子温度T≈40 000K。由H_β线的时间分辨测量得到等离子体的电子密度随时间的演变曲线。 关键词：     

感应磁场压缩下氢等离子体中巴耳末系谱线的斯塔克加宽

本工作研究感应磁场压缩下,氢等离子体中的巴耳末系谱线的斯塔克加宽。电容器对围绕在放电管外部的线圈放电,产生交变轴向磁场,使放电管中氢气离化、压缩与加热。放电周期14微秒,放电电压20千伏,最大电流165千安,初始工作气压2.0×10^-1毫米汞高。用照相方法研究H_β和H_γ的轮廓。这些谱线有显著的加宽。在整个发光阶段中,H_β的平均半宽度为14—16(埃),H_γ为18—19(埃),相应的离子密度为1.7—2.5×10¹⁶厘米^-3。实验轮廓与Griem,Kolb和Shen的理论较为接近,与Holtsmark理论相差较远。光电测量进一步表明:H_β的轮廓随着时间而改变,相应的离子密度亦在改变。在放电的第三半周期初级电流极大时,离子密度最大,达到3.2×1O¹⁶厘米^-3,为初始氢原子密度的2.2倍。     

仪器展宽对大气压等离子体电子密度测量的影响

实验使用两台不同的单色仪,采用光谱线型法测量了大气压氩气介质阻挡放电中的电子密度.诊断结果表明,由于不同的单色仪其仪器加宽不同,仪器加宽对总的光谱线型有较大影响.通过考虑等离子体中的各种加宽机制,采用卷积和反卷积的方法对氩原子发射谱线线型进行了分析,从整个光谱线型中分离出Stark线型,排除了仪器加宽对最终诊断结果的影响.从而最终测量了大气压氩气介质阻挡放电中的电子密度.测量得到在大气压氩气介质阻挡放电中单个放电丝存在时,电子温度为10000K时,电子密度约为3.05-3.26×1021 m-3.此方法不仅可以应用在大气压介质阻挡放电中,还可以用于测量其它大气压等离子体电子密度.     

Experimental Stark broadening studies of the CI transition 3s1P1o ? 3p1S0 at 833.5 nm

Experimental Stark broadening studies of the infrared CI transition 3s ¹ P ₁ ^o − 3p ¹ S ₀ at 833.5 nm are reported for the first time. A high-current wall-stabilized arc, operated in a mixture of helium, argon, carbon dioxide and hydrogen, was applied as the plasma source. Radiation emitted from homogeneous and optically thin plasma layers was analyzed. Stark broadening studies of the selected CI transition and the hydrogen Balmer β line were performed. As expected from theoretical considerations, the CI line width depends linearly on the electron density of the plasma. Applying theoretical Stark broadening data for the H _gb line, the measured Stark widths of the CI line were calibrated for the purpose of electron density determination in low temperature plasmas.     

高气压微波氢等离子体发射光谱诊断

在2.45GHz,800W级的高气压微波等离子体放电系统中,通过测量不同微波功率和放电气压下氢等离子体的Balmer线系的发射光谱,从测量的谱线总展宽中卷积去掉具有高斯线形的Doppler展宽和仪器展宽得到谱线的Stark展宽,并通过Stark展宽测量氢等离子体的电子数密度和电场强度。结果表明:等离子体的电子数密度和电场强度随着放电气压的升高都是先增大后减小,随着微波功率的增加呈现逐渐增大的趋势。微波功率为800W时,气压在25kPa时电子数密度和电场强度都达到最大值,等离子体的电子数密度和内部的电场强度分别为3.55×1012cm-3及4.01kV/cm。     

Stark broadening and shift of some isolated spectral lines of singly ionised earth alkaline metals

Using aZ pinch discharge as a plasma source the profiles and shifts of some prominent ion lines of earth alkaline metals were measured and compared with Stark broadening theories and other experimental results. An electron density of 3.1 to 10.3×10¹⁶ cm^?3 was determined by the laser interferometry, while the electron temperature in the range 25100 to 34800 °K were measured from relative intensities of spectral lines. Comparison of reported experimental shifts and widths with the theories both semi-classical and quantum mechanical shows good agreement. It was also found that Griem's semi-empirical formula is useful and accurate for line widths evaluation.     

Measurement of the Stark broadening parameters of some singly ionized argon lines

Half-widths of fifteen Stark broadened argon II lines have been measured in argon plasma behind the reflected shock wave produced in an electromagnetically driven “T” tube. The plasma electron density was determined by the laser interferometry at three different wavelengths, while the plasma temperature was measured from relative intensities of A II lines. Temperatures were in the range 8,500–16,500 °K; electron densities varied from 1.82 to 3.94 · 10¹⁷ cm^?3. The measured A II linewidths are compared with theoretical and other experimental results. It is shown that a) the broadening of A II lines is in good agreement with the theory, b) line broadening increases linearly with electron density, and c) the Stark broadened lines follow the dispersion profile to the distance of at least three halfwidths from the line center.     

Broadening of carbon ionic lines in a low-temperature dense plasma

The broadening of the spectral lines of singly ionized carbon obtained in a plasma jet of a capillary discharge with an evaporating wall is studied in a wide range of electron concentrations ((6.5 × 10¹⁶)?(3.5 × 10¹⁹) cm^?3). With increasing plasma density, all the experimentally observed lines show a decrease in the half-width in comparison with the half-width calculated in the approximation of slight nonideality. It is experimentally established that a change in the character of the Stark broadening with increasing electron concentration is connected with a strong charge screening occurring when the distance between charged plasma particles decreases to ten diameters of the electron cloud of an emitting ion. Based on the experimentally determined applicability limits of the Griem formula for different energy states of the C II ion, a semiempirical expression for the spectral profile taking into account the Debye screening is proposed.     

Characteristics of an atmospheric‐pressure radio frequency‐driven Ar/H2 plasma discharge with copper wire in tube

This paper investigates a plasma discharge driven by a 13.56 MHz radio frequency (RF) power supply at atmospheric pressure, in which a copper wire is inserted in the discharge tube for the deposition of Cu films. The results show that the jet plasma formation originates from the discharge between the copper wire and induction coil because of its electrostatic field. The axial distribution of the plasma parameters in the RF plasma jet, namely the gas temperature, excitation temperature, and electron number density, is determined by diatomic molecule OH fitting, Boltzmann slope, and H_β Stark broadening, respectively. The discharge current significantly declines when a small amount of hydrogen is added to the argon as the plasma‐forming gas, and the gas temperature of discharge plasma increases considerably.     

Line broadening studies in low energy plasma focus

Optical emission spectroscopic studies were carried out to characterise the plasma leading to the estimation of two plasma parameters, electron density and temperature. These experiments were conducted on a 2 kJ plasma device which is equipped with squirrel cage electrode configuration enclosed in a glass vacuum chamber filled with hydrogen at a pressure of 5 mbar. Spectral emissions obtained from each flash were photographed in the region of 4000–6000 Å using one metre Czerny-Turner spectrograph cum monochromator. Detailed examination of the observed features showed that theH _β andH _λ lines of hydrogen showed significant broadening of the order of 35 Å FWHM which is due to Stark effect expected in high density plasmas. Further several atomic lines of Cu and Zn from the electrode material (brass) showed broadening which was due to quadratic Stark effect. A comparative study of the broadening of lines obtained in DC arc, hollow cathode and plasma focus was made. Electron density from Stark broadened hydrogen lines and quadratic Stark Coefficient C₄ for the CuI and ZnI lines were evaluated. The excitation temperature was determined from the line intensity ratio method using CuI lines.     

Pressure effects of Ar and He on the first two members of the Balmer series of hydrogen

Temperatures of over 6000°K and pressures of over 1000 atmospheres were reproducibly obtained over a period of a few hundred microseconds with a ballistic compressor. The test gas was heated before compression and energy added during each shot by a capacitive discharge system. For a range of r.d. 27–63, the blue shift of H_α produced by helium was only 0.05 cm^-1/r.d. The line was symmetrically broadened and was essentially Lorentzian until the r.d. was above 40. The shift and broadening of the H_β line produced by helium were 2.5 times and 3.2 times higher than those of H_α. The pressure effects of argon on the H_α line are essentially similar to those observed for the spectral lines of alkali metals and singly ionized alkaline earths.     

Spectroscopic diagnostics for an electrical discharge plasma in a liquid

We conducted spectroscopic studies of an electrical discharge plasma in a liquid, used for synthesis of nanosized particles of metals and their compounds. From the intensity ratio of the copper lines, we estimated the electron temperature, and from the Stark broadening of the hydrogen lines H _α we determined the electron density in the electrical discharge plasma. Information about the concentration of copper atoms in the discharge was obtained from analysis of the spectra in the region of resonance lines of copper. We carried out a comparative analysis of the plasma parameters for spark and arc discharges in water, ethanol, and air. Based on the equation of state for an ideal plasma, taking into account the Debye correction, we estimated the pressure in the plasma channel.     

Effects of radiator motion on plasma-broadened hydrogen lyman-β

For the hydrogen line L-β, broadening in an Ar⁺-plasma (N_e = 7.2 × 10¹⁶ cm^?3, T = 12,200 K) has been investigated with the help of a computer simulation of ion broadening taking full account of radiator motion. The anisotropy in Stark broadening for a moving radiator is found to be negligible under these conditions, but Stark profiles depend markedly on the radiator speed. The final line profile (including Stark and Doppler broadening) is nearly the same as the profile obtained by convolution of the Doppler profile with the Stark profile for radiators at rest and fictitious ions with the reduced mass of the atom-ion pair.     

Appearance of a Hα Minimumat the Onset of Net Recombination in Hydrogen Plasmas

Hydrogen plasmas out of ionization equilibrium are either ionizing or recombining depending on the electron temperature T_e . Within the transition region between these two opposite states a minimum of the H_α emission is often experimentally observed. Simple cases were previously analyzed which could be interpreted assuming only a temperature variation, i.e the electron density was constant in the transition region. Here we discuss two examples in which both the density and the temperature vary at the transition. In the linear plasma generator PSI‐II a hydrogen plasma is cooled down by puffing additional gas. We find a minimum at T_min ≈ 1.1 eV. A second example is the effect of an ELM(edge localized mode) pulse propagating through a recombining divertor plasma in the tokamak ASDEX Upgrade. The H_α response shows a double peak which can be interpreted as a local minimum assuming a simultaneous rise of density and temperature during an ELM. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Measurements of electron density and Stark width of neutral helium lines in a helium arc plasma

Electron densities in an atmospheric helium arc plasma have been measured with the Stark broadening parameters of helium spectral lines. The spatially distributed radiation intensities are converted to plasma emission coefficients at every wavelength by means of Abel inversion. From the inverted profiles of He I lines of 4713 ?, 5016 ?, and 6678 ? electron density has been calculated, which ranges from 0.5 ×10¹⁶ to 4 ×10¹⁶ cm^-3 for a helium arc with current 200 A. Stark widths of He I lines of 3889 ? and 7065 ? are determined based on the measurements and compared with existing data.     

光谱法诊断大气压等离子体电子密度

采用发射光谱方法对大气压氩气介质阻挡放电(DBD)系统中的电子密度进行了诊断。通过考虑放电等离子体中的各种加宽机制, 采用自编的非对称卷积程序对氩原子发射谱线的线型进行分析拟合, 再通过反卷积的方法将各种加宽机制分离开来, 最终将Stark展宽分离出来进行大气压氩气介质阻挡放电电子密度的计算。诊断结果表明, 在大气压氩气介质阻挡放电中当有三个放电丝存在, 电子温度为10000 K时, 电子密度约为4.06×1021 m-3, 诊断结果和模拟结果符合得很好。此方法不仅可以应用在大气压介质阻挡放电中, 还可以用于其他含有非氢气体的大气压等离子体电子密度的测量。     

Contribution to Calculation of Ion Microfield Nonuniformity Effect on the Asymmetry of Lyman‐α Line in Dense Plasma

The high orders of Stark effects on spectral line shapes are examined in the ion‐static and electron‐impact ap‐proximations. At first the distribution functions of the spatial derivative of the ion microfield in He⁺ plasma are calculated for different plasma conditions when the coupling parameter is weak. We present new results about the spatial derivative ion microfield distributions and apply them to show the asymmetry of the Lyman‐α (Ly‐α) line in He⁺ plasma. At the second stage we show that asymmetry is affected by the spatial derivative tensor of the local ion electric field. We have used the Monte‐Carlo simulation (MCS) to compute the distribution functions for all tensor components and use them to solve the evolution equation of emitter whose solution serves to compute and therefore to show the line shape asymmetry. Good agreement of our distribution functions of ion microfield gradients and the line asymmetry with other results are obtained (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Plasma effects in the spectrum of high Balmer lines

Measurements of high Balmer lines (N_upper = 12 to 19) emitted from a hydrogen discharge of relatively low plasma density show that the spectrum may be well reproduced by a superposition of symmetric Stark profiles, which accounts for the broadening effect generated by ions and quasistatic electrons. The small deviations which were found most probably involve inelastic electron collisions connecting adjacent upper levels. Within experimental accuracy, a shift is not detectable either for odd or for even series members. This finding is inconsistent with the observations of other authors according to which odd Balmer lines are shifted to the red.     

On the Cd III spectrum in a pulsed helium discharge

On the basis of the spectral line intensity relaxation during the plasma decay, fifty six spectral lines between 219 nm and 330 nm in the cadmium (Cd) spectrum were identified as Cd III (doubly ionized) or Cd IV (triply ionized) lines. The measured Stark widths of twelve, the most intense spectral lines around 315±15 nm with well defined profiles, are presented. Investigated spectral lines originate from the high lying energy levels, not classified up to now. A linear low-pressure pulsed arc was used as an optically thin plasma source. A pulsed discharge was produced in a pyrex discharge tube. Helium was chosen as the carrier gas. The cadmium atoms were sputtered from the thin cadmium cylindrical plates located in the homogeneous axial part of the discharge tube. The helium plasma was operated at electron temperatures up to 19 000 K and 1.1 × 10²³ m^-3 electron density. The stepwise ionization processes via the high lying singly ionized (Cd II) energy levels, populated well due to the Penning and charge exchange effects, provide high density of the Cd III (and Cd IV) ions in our helium plasma. The temporal evolutions of the spectral line intensities were monitored using a spectrograph and an ICCD camera as a highly sensitive detection system.