@inproceedings{f5fb50e03c2544dab694d5bed69ca6f7,
title = "PIC modeling of collisional skin depth in RF-driven atmospheric pressure plasmas",
abstract = "Atmospheric pressure plasmas have application in plasma processing and plasma lighting. One common technique for creating these plasmas is to use RF to drive a discharge in a gas column. A main unexplained feature of these discharges is a radial contraction of the plasma, believed to depend in part on the depth to which the RF wave penetrates the gas column. We present collisional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of such a system, specifically looking at how the collisions modify the plasma skin depth for these parameters and geometries. We find the skin depth changes roughly 30 from 0.53 mm to 0.71 mm as the temperature increases from 0 to 500 eV for parameters relevant to atmospheric pressure plasmas in use today.",
keywords = "CoUisional, PIC, Plasma torches, Radio frequency",
author = "Roark, \{C. M.\} and J. Carlsson and A. Hakim and Karipides, \{D. P.\} and Smithe, \{D. N.\} and Stoltz, \{P. H.\}",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1063/1.2800539",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "0735404445",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
pages = "487--490",
booktitle = "RADIO FREQUENCY POWER IN PLASMAS",
note = "17th Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas ; Conference date: 07-05-2007 Through 09-05-2007",
}