Capacitively coupled radio-frequency discharges in nitrogen at low pressures

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2012

Autores

Alves, LL (Autor) Outra; Marques, L (Autor) Outra; Carlos Daniel Diogo Matias Pintassilgo (Autor) FEUP; Wattieaux, G (Autor) Outra; Es sebbar, E (Autor) Outra; Berndt, J (Autor) Outra; Kovacevic, E (Autor) Outra; Carrasco, N (Autor) Outra; Boufendi, L (Autor) Outra; Cernogora, G (Autor) Outra

Revista

Título: PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Vol. 21

Página Final: 045008

Editora: IOP Publishing

Indexação

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Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-002-7B2

DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/21/4/045008

Abstract (EN): This paper uses experiments and modelling to study capacitively coupled radio-frequency (rf) discharges in pure nitrogen, at 13.56 MHz frequency, 0.1-1 mbar pressures and 2-30 W coupled powers. Experiments performed on two similar (not twin) setups, existing in the LATMOS and the GREMI laboratories, include electrical and optical emission spectroscopy (OES) measurements. Electrical measurements give the rf-applied and the direct-current-self-bias voltages, the effective power coupled to the plasma and the average electron density. OES diagnostics measure the intensities of radiative transitions with the nitrogen second-positive and first-negative systems, and with the 811.5 nm atomic line of argon (present as an actinometer). Simulations use a hybrid code that couples a two-dimensional time-dependent fluid module, describing the dynamics of the charged particles (electrons and positive ions N-2(+) and N-4(+)), and a zero-dimensional kinetic module, describing the production and destruction of nitrogen (atomic and molecular) neutral species. The coupling between these modules adopts the local mean energy approximation to define space-time-dependent electron parameters for the fluid module and to work out space-time-averaged rates for the kinetic module. The model gives general good predictions for the self-bias voltage and for the intensities of radiative transitions (both average and spatially resolved), underestimating the electron density by a factor of 3-4.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 19