Sharma, Sarveshwar, Sirse, Nishant, Turner, Miles M. ORCID: 0000-0001-9713-6198 and Kuley, Animesh (2023) A harmonic study of electric field nonlinearity and field reversal in collisionless capacitive discharges driven by sawtooth-like waveforms. Physics Letters A, 498 . p. 129346.
Abstract
Understanding electron and ion heating phenomenon in capacitively coupled radio-frequency plasma discharges is vital for many plasma processing applications. In this article, using particle-in-cell simulation technique we investigate the collisionless argon discharge excited by temporally asymmetric sawtooth-like waveform. In particular, a systematic study of the electric field nonlinearity and field reversal phenomenon by varying the number of harmonics and its effect on electron and ion heating is performed. The simulation results predict higher harmonics generation and multiple field reversal regions formation with an increasing number of harmonics along with the local charge separation and significant displacement current outside sheath region. The field reversal strength is greater during the expanding phase of the sheath edge in comparison to its collapsing phase causing significant ion cooling. The observed behavior is associated with the electron fluid compression/rarefaction and electron inertia during expanding and collapsing phase respectively.
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Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Computer simulation Engineering > Electronic engineering Physical Sciences > Plasma processing Physical Sciences > Plasmas |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science and Health > School of Physical Sciences Research Institutes and Centres > National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology (NCPST) |
Official URL: | https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/... |
Funders: | Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Core Research Grant No. CRG/2021/003536., Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS Sanctioned No. 57/14/04/2022-BRNS),, Science and Engineering Research Board EMEQ program (SERB sanctioned No. EEQ/2022/ 000144) a, National Supercomputing Mission (Ref No: DST/NSM/ R&D_HPC_Applications/2021/4). |
ID Code: | 29976 |
Deposited On: | 15 May 2024 15:24 by Miles Turner . Last Modified 16 May 2024 12:08 |
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