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Chin. Phys. B, 2009, Vol. 18(3): 1177-1180    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/18/3/056
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Numerical simulation of super-short pulsed discharge in Helium with particle-in-cell Monte--Carlo collisions technique

Shi Feng(石锋), Zhang Li-Li(张莉丽), and Wang De-Zhen(王德真)
School of Physics and Optoelectronic Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Abstract  This paper reports that a simulation of glow discharge in pure helium gas at the pressure of 1.333×103 Pa under a high-voltage nanosecond pulse is performed by using a one-dimensional particle-in-cell Monte Carlo collisions (PIC--MCC) model. Numerical modelling results show that the cathode sheath is much thicker than that of anode during the pulse discharge, and that there exists the phenomenon of field reversal at relative high pressures near the end of the pulse, which results from the cumulative positive charges due to their finite mobility during the cathode sheath expansion. Moreover, electron energy distribution function (EEDF) and ion energy distribution function (IEDF) have been also observed. In the early stage of the pulse, a large amount of electrons can be accelerated above the ionization threshold energy. However, in the second half of the pulse, as the field in bulk plasma decreases and thereafter the reverse field forms due to the excessive charges in cathode sheath, although the plasma density grows, the high energy part of EEDF decreases. It concludes that the large volume non-equilibrium plasmas can be obtained with high-voltage nanosecond pulse discharges.
Keywords:  high-voltage nanosecond pulse      PIC--MCC model      EEDF      IEDF  
Received:  14 May 2008      Revised:  20 July 2008      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  52.80.Hc (Glow; corona)  
  52.65.Pp (Monte Carlo methods)  
  52.65.Rr (Particle-in-cell method)  
  52.25.-b (Plasma properties)  
  52.40.Kh (Plasma sheaths)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10775027).

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Shi Feng(石锋), Zhang Li-Li(张莉丽), and Wang De-Zhen(王德真) Numerical simulation of super-short pulsed discharge in Helium with particle-in-cell Monte--Carlo collisions technique 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 1177

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