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P: Fachverband Plasmaphysik

P 6: Low Pressure Plasmas I

P 6.5: Talk

Monday, March 18, 2019, 17:45–18:00, HS 20

Operation of INCA with molecular gases — •Christian Lütke Stetzkamp, Philipp Ahr, Tsanko Vaskov Tsankov, and Uwe Czarnetzki — Institute for Plasma and Atomic Physics, Ruhr University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

Recently a novel concept for collisionless electron heating and plasma generation at low pressures was theoretically proposed [1]. It is based on periodically structured vortex fields, which produce certain electron resonances in velocity space. The concept was experimentally realized by the inductively coupled array (INCA) discharge and first experimental results in atomic gas plasmas were presented in [2].

Here the discharge is analysed further and the newest experimental results regarding discharge operation in molecular gases are presented and discussed.

[1] U. Czarnetzki and Kh. Tarnev, Phys. Plasmas 21, 123508 (2014)

[2] Philipp Ahr et al, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 27, 105010 (2018)