title: Design and construction of uniform glow discharge plasma system operating under atmospheric condition.
abstract: The design of a uniform glow discharge plasma system operating without vacuum is presented. A full-bridge switching circuit was used to switch the transformers. The primary windings of transformers were connected in parallel, but in opposite phase to double the output voltage. Theoretically, 20 000 V(pp) was obtained. Rectangle copper electrodes were used, and placed parallel to each other. To prevent the spark production that is, to obtain uniformity, two 2 mm Teflon sheets were glued to the electrodes. However, it was observed that the operating frequency also affected the uniformity. For the system presented here, the frequency at which more uniformity was obtained was found to be 14 kHz.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Engineering Department, Başkent University, Ankara 06530, Turkey.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Koçum
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ayhan
mesh_terms: D001274:Atmospheric Pressure; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004581:Electronics; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005740:Gases / Q000737:chemistry*; D006361:Heating / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D005740:Gases