Atmospheric pressure plasma jet with high-voltage power supply based on piezoelectric transformer

Babij, Michał; Nitsch, Karol; Gotszalk, Teodor; Silberring, Jerzy

doi:10.1063/1.4874317

Title: Atmospheric pressure plasma jet with high-voltage power supply based on piezoelectric transformer

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The dielectric barrier discharge plasma jet, an example of the nonthermal atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ), generates low-temperature plasmas that are suitable for the atomization of volatile species and can also be served as an ionization source for ambient mass and ion mobility spectrometry. A new design of APPJ for mass spectrometry has been built in our group. In these plasma sources magnetic transformers (MTs) and inductors are typically used in power supplies but they present several drawbacks that are even more evident when dealing with high-voltage normally used in APPJs. To overcome these disadvantages, high frequency generators with the absence of MT are proposed in the literature. However, in the case of miniaturized APPJs these conventional power converters, built of ferromagnetic cores and inductors or by means of LC resonant tank circuits, are not so useful as piezoelectric transformer (PT) based power converters due to bulky components and small efficiency. We made and examined a novel atmospheric pressure plasma jet with PT supplier served as ionization source for ambient mass spectrometry, and especially mobile spectrometry where miniaturization, integration of components, and clean plasma are required. The objective of this paper is to describe the concept, design, and implementation ofmore »« less

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Babij, Michał; Nitsch, Karol; Gotszalk, Teodor ^[1]; Silberring, Jerzy ^[2]

Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław (Poland)
AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków (Poland)

Publication Date:: Thu May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014

OSTI Identifier:: 22254889

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Review of Scientific Instruments

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 85; Journal Issue: 5; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MASS SPECTROSCOPY; MINIATURIZATION; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PLASMA JETS; POWER SUPPLIES; SOLENOIDS; TANK CIRCUITS; TRANSFORMERS; VENTILATION BARRIERS

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                    Babij, Michał, Kowalski, Zbigniew W., E-mail: zbigniew.w.kowalski@pwr.wroc.pl, Nitsch, Karol, Gotszalk, Teodor, and Silberring, Jerzy. Atmospheric pressure plasma jet with high-voltage power supply based on piezoelectric transformer.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
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                    Babij, Michał, Kowalski, Zbigniew W., E-mail: zbigniew.w.kowalski@pwr.wroc.pl, Nitsch, Karol, Gotszalk, Teodor, & Silberring, Jerzy. Atmospheric pressure plasma jet with high-voltage power supply based on piezoelectric transformer.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4874317

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                    Babij, Michał, Kowalski, Zbigniew W., E-mail: zbigniew.w.kowalski@pwr.wroc.pl, Nitsch, Karol, Gotszalk, Teodor, and Silberring, Jerzy. 2014.  
        "Atmospheric pressure plasma jet with high-voltage power supply based on piezoelectric transformer".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4874317.

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@article{osti_22254889,

  title        = {Atmospheric pressure plasma jet with high-voltage power supply based on piezoelectric transformer},

  author       = {Babij, Michał and Kowalski, Zbigniew W., E-mail: zbigniew.w.kowalski@pwr.wroc.pl and Nitsch, Karol and Gotszalk, Teodor and Silberring, Jerzy},

  abstractNote = {The dielectric barrier discharge plasma jet, an example of the nonthermal atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ), generates low-temperature plasmas that are suitable for the atomization of volatile species and can also be served as an ionization source for ambient mass and ion mobility spectrometry. A new design of APPJ for mass spectrometry has been built in our group. In these plasma sources magnetic transformers (MTs) and inductors are typically used in power supplies but they present several drawbacks that are even more evident when dealing with high-voltage normally used in APPJs. To overcome these disadvantages, high frequency generators with the absence of MT are proposed in the literature. However, in the case of miniaturized APPJs these conventional power converters, built of ferromagnetic cores and inductors or by means of LC resonant tank circuits, are not so useful as piezoelectric transformer (PT) based power converters due to bulky components and small efficiency. We made and examined a novel atmospheric pressure plasma jet with PT supplier served as ionization source for ambient mass spectrometry, and especially mobile spectrometry where miniaturization, integration of components, and clean plasma are required. The objective of this paper is to describe the concept, design, and implementation of this miniaturized piezoelectric transformer-based atmospheric pressure plasma jet.},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.4874317},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22254889},
  journal      = {Review of Scientific Instruments},

  issn         = {0034-6748},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 85,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014},

  month        = {Thu May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014}

}

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