The effects of neutral gas heating on H mode transition and maintenance currents in a 13.56 MHz planar coil inductively coupled plasma reactor

Jayapalan, K.K. and Chin, Oi Hoong (2012) The effects of neutral gas heating on H mode transition and maintenance currents in a 13.56 MHz planar coil inductively coupled plasma reactor. Physics of Plasmas, 19 (11). p. 119901. ISSN 1070-664X, DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4768431.

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Abstract

The H mode transition and maintenance currents in a 13.56 MHz laboratory 6 turn planar coil inductively coupled plasma (ICP) reactor are simulated for low pressure argon discharge range of 0.02-0.3 mbar with neutral gas heating and at ambient temperature. An experimentally fitted 3D power evolution plot for 0.02 mbar argon pressure is also shown to visualize the effects of hysteresis in the system. Comparisons between simulation and experimental measurements show good agreement in the pressure range of 0.02-0.3 mbar for transition currents and 0.02-0.1 mbar for maintenance currents only when neutral gas heating is considered. This suggests that neutral gas heating plays a non-negligible role in determining the mode transition points of a rf ICP system.

Item Type: Article
Funders: UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords: Argon discharges; Argon pressure; Experimental measurements; ICP systems; Inductively coupled plasma reactor; Low pressures; Mode transitions; Neutral gas; Planar coil; Pressure ranges; Inductively coupled plasma; Maintenance; Gas heating
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Department of Physics
Depositing User: miss munirah saadom
Date Deposited: 16 Jul 2013 02:43
Last Modified: 06 Dec 2019 06:17
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/7711

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