低温氩等离子体中的单探针和发射光谱诊断技术

使用静电探针和发射光谱分析方法，测量了实验室圆柱形辉光等离子体轴向I-V曲线和发射光谱.通过电子能量概率函数方法、Fermi-Dirac模型、低气压放电的Schottky扩散理论，分别计算了等离子体的电子温度、电子激发温度和电子密度.研究了利用等离子体发射光谱计算电子激发温度、低气压放电理论估算电子密度的方法与静电探针诊断方法的内在联系，讨论了不同方法的使用特点.所研究的方法在某些特殊环境的等离子体参数诊断中具有较好的参考和应用价值. 关键词： 静电探针 发射光谱 电子能量概率函数 Fermi-Dirac模型     

Anomalous microwave reflection from a metal surface induced by spoof surface plasmon

The reflection of X-band microwaves (8-12 GHz) from a metallic aluminum (Al) surface with groove grating corrugations was investigated experimentally. It was shown that the reflection of p-polarization is much less than the microwave reflected from the corresponding area of an unruled Al surface, with selective wavelength. The experimental results demonstrated that the anomalous microwave reflection is strongly associated with the excitation of spoof surface plasmons at the Al-air interface by the surface grating coupler. This near-total absence of reflected microwaves is similar to the famous Wood's anomaly in the optical regime and is of fundamental importance to the applications of spoof surface plasmons in the microwave regime.     

A comparison among optical emission spectroscopic methods of determining electron temperature in low pressure argon plasmas

In this article, four kinds of optical emission spectroscopic methods of determining electron temperature are used to investigate the relationship between electron temperature and pressure in the cylindrical plasmas of dc glow discharges at low pressures in laboratory by measuring the relative intensities of ArI lines at various pressures. These methods are developed respectively on the basis of the Fermi--Dirac model, corona model, and two kinds of electron collision cross section models according to the kinetic analysis. Their theoretical bases and the conditions to which they are applicable are reviewed, and their calculation results and fitting errors are compared with each other. The investigation has indicated that the electron temperatures obtained by the four methods become consistent with each other when the pressure increases in the low pressure argon plasmas.     

Excitation of surface plasmons at the boundary of overdense plasma

The excitation of surface plasmons （SPs） with a strip grating at the boundary of an unmagnetized overdense plasma has been investigated theoretically and experimentally. An incident electromagnetic radiation was p-polarized at the frequency of 5 GHz. Experiments showed that when the plasma density was four times higher than the critical density with the grating present, and the SPs could be excited at the boundary of the overdense plasma. Contribution of the glass layer in the formation of the SP dispersion relation was examined. When the incident electromagnetic radiation was coupled into SPs the coupling order with the effective permittivity was simulated qualitatively. We find that the existence of SPs at the boundary of overdense plasma indicates that the reflection coefficient of the incident electromagnetic radiation reaches its minimum and even becomes total absorption. In this work the plasma density was diagnosed by a Langmuir double probe.