Nonlinear acoustic waves in a collisional self-gravitating dusty plasma

Using the reductive perturbation method,we investigate the small amplitude nonlinear acoustic wave in a collisional self-gravitating dusty plasma.The result shows that the small amplitude dust acoustic wave can be expressed by a modified Korteweg-de Vries equation,and the nonlinear wave is instable because of the collisions between the neutral gas molecules and the charged particles.     

Experimentelle und theoretische Untersuchungen von Nichtgleichgewichtseffekten an stationären Heliumplasmen unter Normaldruck

Measurements and calculations of temperature, densities and field-strength-current-characteristics of cascaded arcs (0.15 and 0.3 cm radius) burning in Helium under normal pressure are reported. It is shown that the evaluation of measured arc data assuming Saha equilibrium is not in agreement with the detailed solution of the balance equations. The temperature of electrons and heavy particles as well as the density of electrons and neutrals must be determined as independent variables from the rate equation for ground state neutrals, from the equation of state, and from the energy balance of the electron gas and of the total plasma. The latter equation can be replaced by relations between measured intensities and the state variables. The deviations from Saha equilibrium are mainly caused by diffusion of neutral particles into the arc core and of charged particles into the opposite direction. The theoretical results derived from the balance equations are compared with spectroscopic line intensity and line width measurements. The agreement is good even if the equilibrium conditions are strongly violated.     

Particle‐in‐cell/Monte Carlo simulation of electron and ion currents to cylindrical Langmuir probe

Electron and ion currents to a cylindrical Langmuir (electrostatic) probe were calculated using the particle‐in‐cell/Monte Carlo (PIC/MC) self‐consistent simulation for a neutral gas in the pressure range 2–3,000 Pa. The simulation enables us to calculate the probe currents even at high neutral gas pressures when the collisions of collected charged particles with neutral gas particles near the probe are important. The main aim of this paper is the calculation of probe currents at such high gas pressures and the comparison of the results with experimentally measured probe currents. Simulations were performed for two cases: (a) probes with varying radii in a non‐thermal plasma with high electron temperature at low neutral gas pressure of 2 Pa (in order to verify the correctness of our simulations), and (b) probe with the radius of 10 μm in the afterglow plasma with low electron temperature and a higher neutral gas pressure (up to 3,000 Pa). The electron probe currents obtained in case (a) show good agreement with those predicted by the orbital motion limited current (OMLC) theory for probes with radii up to 100 μm for the given plasma conditions. At larger probe radii and/or at higher probe voltages, the OMLC theory incorrectly predicts too high an electron probe current for the plasma parameters studied. Additionally, a formula describing the spatial dependence of the electron density in the presheath in the collisionless case is derived. The simulation at higher neutral gas pressures, i.e. case (b), shows a decrease of the electron probe current with increasing gas pressure and the creation of a large presheath around the probe. The simulated electron probe currents are compared with those of measurements by other authors, and the differences are discussed.     

On the role of dust in the cometary plasma

The cometary coma consists of neutral gas, plasma, and dust grains. The dust grains can influence both the neutral and charged coma’s constituents. Usually, the presence of dust particles in a plasma results in additional losses of both electrons and ions due to the plasma recombination on the particle surfaces. Solar radiation makes the impact of dust even more complicated depending on the solar flux, the dust number density, the photoelectric properties of the dust particles, the dust particle composition, the distribution of the sizes, etc. We propose a simple kinetic model evaluating the role of dust particles in the coma plasma chemistry and demonstrate that this role can be crucial, resulting in a nontrivial behavior of both the electron and ion densities of the plasma. We show that a coma’s dust particles can be negatively as well as positively charged depending on their composition. These opposite charges of the grains can result in fast coagulation of dust particles, thus, forming complex aggregate shapes of cometary grains. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Mass spectrometry of molecules and radicals in glow discharge plasma

The article represents a method and equipment developed for mass spectrometric analysis of plasma, that is, for measurement of concentration of atoms and molecules, and their fragments, including free radicals. A compact and inexpensive mass spectrometer is based on a quadrupole residual gas analyzer (RGA-200, Stanford Research Systems). The design of the two-section differential pumping chamber makes it possible to bring the mass-spectrometer analyzer to the entrance diaphragm to a distance of 40 mm in order to measure quick reacting and easily condensed particles. The equipment was used for analyzing the composition of spherical glow discharge plasma in methanol vapor and acetone-nitrogen mixture. A procedure for mass spectrum processing is proposed. Time-varying concentrations of all observed neutral particles are measured. Presently available data on sections of complete and dissociative ionization of molecules and their fragments, which are necessary for reconstructing concentrations of particles in plasma from measured mass spectra, are presented.     

Investigation of the glow and contracted discharge plasmas in nitrogen by coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy,optical interferometry,and numerical simulation

The translational temperature in the plasma of glow and contracted discharges is measured using the methods of coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy and optical interferometry. The current density in the discharge is determined by measuring the electron concentration with optical interferometry and emission spectroscopy. The distribution of nitrogen molecules over vibrational and rotational levels in the ground state, the electron energy distribution, and the time dependence of the gas temperature are numerically found based on a model including the homogeneous Boltzmann equation and balance equations for the concentrations of charged and excited particles and for the gas temperature. The dynamics of transition to the quasi-steady-state distribution of nitrogen molecules over vibrational levels is studied.     

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N2-Ar射频放电等离子体广泛应用于微电子工业的刻蚀、氮化物薄膜的制备及金属表面氮化等技术领域。开发了N2-Ar混合气体容性耦合射频放电PIC/MC自洽模型,模型主要描述了e-,N2+,N+,Ar+等主要带电粒子的行为分布。等离子体的碰撞过程分别考虑了带电粒子(e-,N2+,N+,Ar+)与基态中性N2分子和Ar原子的21种碰撞反应过程。模拟结果表明,在纯N2及N2-Ar混合气体容性耦合射频放电中,各种带电粒子的数密度都在等离子体区达到最大值,且氮分子离子为主要粒子;在N2容性耦合射频放电中,加入10%氩气时,N+平均能量有所增加,在射频电极处两种氮离子(N2+,N+)高能粒子所占比例增加。本研究对认识N2-Ar射频放电等离子体过程微观机理具重要意义。     

Electron emission from a cathode doped by fast particles of a working gas

The effect of fast charged and neutral particles on the emission properties of different materials is investigated. In many plasma devices, a flux of fast atoms and ions produces a specific self-sustained state of the layer near the cathode surface. In particular, this layer is saturated by working gas atoms to a depth of several monolayers. This state variously modifies different types of emission. Potential emission, taking place under the action of metastable atoms and ions, weakens because of a rise in the work function. On the contrary, kinetic emission, which is due to fast heavy particles, is enhanced, since energy losses in the modified near-surface layer increase. Photoemission resulting under the action of resonance radiation increases considerably, and its mechanism changes.     

Production of Monodisperse Nanoparticles and Application of Discrete-Monodisperse Model in Plasma Reactors

The particle growth in plasma reactor were investigated by using the discrete-monodisperse (D-M) model for various process conditions. The monodisperse large sized particle distribution predicted by the D-M model are in good agreement with the large sized particles by the discrete-sectional model and also in the experiments by Shiratani et al. (1996). Some fractions of the small size particles are in a neutral state or even charged positively, but most of the large sized monodisperse particles are charged negatively. As the mass generation rate of monomers increases, the large sized particles grow more quickly and the production rate of nanoparticles of 100nm by plasma reactor increases. As the initial electron concentration or the monomer diameter increases, it takes longer time for the large sized particles to grow up to 100nm, but the large sized particle concentration of 100nm increases and the resulting production rate of large sized particles of 100nm increases. As the residence time increases, the time for the large sized particles to grow up to 100nm decreases and the large sized particle concentration of 100nm increases and, as a result, the production rate of large sized particles of 100nm increases. We propose that the plasma reactor can be a good candidate to produce monodisperse nanoparticles.     

Complex plasma in narrow channels: Impact of confinement on the local order

Two-dimensional equilibrium configurations of the dust component of a complex plasma in narrow channels have been numerically simulated by the molecular dynamics method for various forms of the confinement potential such as the parabolic potential and potential well. The interaction between the charged dust particles is described by a screened Coulomb potential with allowance for the interaction of microparticles with a neutral gas. It has been shown that the form of the confinement potential strongly affects the local order of the microparticles in such a system.     

Coagulation rate of protein fragments in a liquid with gas inclusions

A model of association of protein fragments and molecules in liquid on neutral and charged spherical inhomogeneities, including gas bubbles with stabilizing ion sheaths (bubstons), was developed. Association rates were comparatively estimated for three processes: self-coagulation of noninteracting protein molecules (fragments), self-coagulation of molecules charged as a result of the interaction with surrounding electrolyte, and association of charged molecules on bubstons. Estimation of coagulation of biomolecules on bubstons shows the possibility to control the biomolecule association rate by varying the bubston concentration.     

Ionization Potential Depression in Hot Dense Plasmas Through a Pure Classical Model

The ionization potential of an ion embedded in a plasma, lowered due to the whole of the charged particles (ions and electrons) interacting with this ion, is the so‐called plasma effect. A numerical plasma model based on classical molecular dynamics has been developed recently. It is capable to describe a neutral plasma at equilibrium involving ions of various charge states of the same atom together with electrons. This code is used here to investigate the ionization potential depression (IPD). The study of the IPD is illustrated and discussed for aluminum plasmas at mid and solid density and electron temperatures varying from 50eV to 190eV. The method relies on a sampling of the total potential energy of the electron located at an ion being ionized. The potential energy of such electron results from all of the interacting charged particles interacting with it. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Neutral gas free molecular flow algorithm including ionization and walls for use in plasma simulations

Several plasma devices, including Hall and ion thrusters, operate by ionizing a low density neutral gas for which the mean free path between collisions of gas molecules is greater than typical device dimensions. In general, the discrete-particle algorithms used to calculate the neutral gas ignore velocity changes due to collisions between gas molecules. However, particle algorithms are a source of unphysical statistical noise that may detract from the study of the plasma physics, the prime purpose of most simulations. In this paper we present a new neutral gas algorithm for use in plasma simulation codes that exploits the fact that very few collisions change the velocity of neutral gas molecules. The algorithm assumes that the particle velocity distribution function for neutrals emitted from a given surface remains unchanged except for a scale factor that reflects the loss of neutrals to ionization. The sources of neutrals may be gas inlets, and isotropic, thermally accommodated, gas molecules coming off chamber surfaces including recombined ions. The algorithm is implemented in two dimensions (R–Z) with emitting surfaces represented as surfaces of revolution. The advantage of this algorithm over the conventional particle approach is the absence of statistical noise.     

Low energy (E0 < 10 keV) atom and ion scattering of neon from a Cu(100) surface; Ionization and neutralization

The ion fractions η⁺ of low energy (5–10 keV) neon particles scattered from a Cu(100) surface are measured with a time of flight spectrometer. These fractions are obtained for neutral as well as charged projectiles and for different crystal directions. The scattering angle θ was 30°. For a primary energy E₀ of 5 keV neutral projectiles have a value for η⁺ which is 30 times lower than for charged projectiles; these values are 0.15 and 4.5% respectively. For E₀ = 10 keV the values of η⁺ are about the same (~22%). Energy differences up to 22 eV, depending on E₀, are observed between the single scattering peaks in the ion spectra of charged and neutral projectiles but also between the single scattering peak in the spectra of all scattered particles and of ions, with ions as projectiles. A qualitative discussion of these data is given, involving charge transfer processes of noble gas particle and target atom. The data suggest that these neutralization processes can be described more adequately with interatomic neutralization processes along the trajectory than with Auger neutralization by conduction electrons.     

超短超强脉冲激光在空气中产生的电离通道的寿命研究

对超短超强激光脉冲在大气中传播时形成的电离通道的寿命进行了理论研究.综合考虑了通道中自由电子，正离子，负离子的复合，自由电子和中性分子的吸附以及在后续 激光作用下的退吸附过程.推导出了退吸附激光强度恒定时通道中带电离子密度的速率方程 的解析解.计算结果表明，通过引入退吸附激光抑制电子和中性分子的吸附作用能够在微秒 的时间尺度上将电子密度维持在10¹²—10¹³cm^-3的水平，在相同的波长 和平均功率下，短脉冲序列的退吸附效果要略好于连续激光 关键词： 等离子体通道 复合 吸附 退吸附 寿命     

Modeling process of the neutral beam re-ionization loss

The basic process of re-ionization loss was studied. In the drift duct there are three processes leading to re-ionization loss: the collision of neutral beam particles with the molecules of background gas, similar collisions with released molecules from the inner wall of the drift duct and the ferret-collisions among particles with different energy of the neutral beam. Mathematical models have been developed and taking EAST-NBI parameters as an example, the re-ionization loss was obtained within these models. The result indicated that in the early stage of the neutral beam injector operation the released gas was quite abundant. The amount of re-ionization loss owing to the released gas can be as high as 60%. In the case of a long-time operation of the neutral beam injector, the total re-ionization loss decreases from 13.7% to 5.7%. Then the re-ionization loss originating mainly from the collisions between particles of the neutral beam and the background molecules is dominant, covering about 92% of the total re-ionization loss. The drift duct pressure was the decisive factor for neutral beam re-ionization loss.     

Formation of plasma dust structures at atmospheric pressure

The formation of strongly coupled stable dust structures in the plasma produced by an electron beam at atmospheric pressure was detected experimentally. Analytical expressions were derived for the ionization rate of a gas by an electron beam in an axially symmetric geometry by comparing experimental data with Monte Carlo calculations. Self-consistent one-dimensional simulations of the beam plasma were performed in the diffusion drift approximation of charged plasma particle transport with electron diffusion to determine the dust particle levitation conditions. Since almost all of the applied voltage drops on the cathode layer in the Thomson glow regime of a non-self-sustained gas discharge, a distribution of the electric field that grows toward the cathode is produced in it; this field together with the gravity produces a potential well in which the dust particles levitate to form a stable disk-shaped structure. The nonideality parameters of the dust component in the formation region of a highly ordered quasi-crystalline structure calculated using computational data for the dust particle charging problem were found to be higher than the critical value after exceeding which an ensemble of particles with a Yukawa interaction should pass to the crystalline state.     

PIC/MCC Simulation of Electron and Ion Currents to Spherical Langmuir Probe

The Particle In Cell/Monte Carlo Collisions (PIC/MCC) simulation was used for the calculation of electron and ion currents to a spherical Langmuir (electrostatic) probe. This simulation took into account the collisions of collected charged particles with neutral gas particles around the probe and it can calculate the probe currents at higher neutral gas pressures. The improvements of usual simulation techniques enabled to speed up the simulation and to calculate the probe current even for neutral gas pressures above 1 kPa. The simulations were carried out for two cases: i) probe with radius of 0.5 mm in non‐thermal plasma with high electron temperature, ii) probe with radius of 10 µm in afterglow plasma with low electron temperature. The influence of probe radius on electron probe current was also studied. The simulations showed that thick sheath limit of OML theory provides incorrect values of probe current for probes with radii larger than 200 µm at plasma parameters considered even at very low neutral gas pressures. The probe characteristics were calculated for probe with 0.5 mm radius for pressures up to 500 Pa and for probe with 10 μm radius for pressures up to 3 kPa. The influence of collisions on electron and ion probe current was demonstrated and the procedure for determination of electron and ion densities from the probe measurement at higher pressures was developed. The results from PIC/MCC simulations were compared with results from continuum theory. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

普适性双原子分子解析势能函数的研究

提出了一种构造解析势能函数的新方法,由此得到了一种既适用于中性双原子分子又适用于带电双原子分子离子的解析势能函数。本文用八种基本类型的双原子分子——同核中性基态双原子分子Na₂-X1Σ+_g,同核中性激发态双原子分子C₂-A1Π_u,同核带电基态双原子分子离子He+₂-X2Σ+_u,同核带电激发态双原子分子离子N+₂-B2Σ+_u,异核中性基态双原子分子NaLi-X1Σ+_g,异核中性激发态双原子分子BH-B1Σ+,异核带电基态双原子分子离子(BC)--X3Π,异核带电激发态双原子分子离子(CS)+-A2Π等共21个算例对势能函数进行了验证并与RKR (Rydberg-Klein-Rees)实验数据进行了比较,计算结果与RKR数据符合很好。