Surface diffuse discharge mechanism of well-aligned atmospheric pressure microplasma arrays

Zhou Ren-Wu¹, Zhou Ru-Sen², Zhuang Jin-Xing³, Li Jiang-Wei¹, Chen Mao-Dong¹, Zhang Xian-Hui^{1, †,}, Liu Dong-Ping^{1, 4}, (Ken) Ostrikov Kostya^{5, 6}, Yang Si-Ze¹

Images of (a) plasma-untreated (control) E. coli sample, the samples treated by the well-aligned plasma for (b) 10 s, (c) 30 s, (d) 60 s, and (e) 120 s. The marked area indicates the air microplasma area above the E. coli sample.