关键词: 介质阻挡放电, 放电丝, 沿面放电

Abstract: A dielectric barrier discharge with a fairly large gap width is realized in atmospheric pressure argon because the critical voltage value for gas gap breakdown is sharply lowered through using a wedged gas gap. The discharge behavior is investigated experimentally through analyzing images taken with exposure time of several milliseconds. Results indicate that a stripe pattern with a homogeneous corona around can be observed under a lower voltage, and the discharge turns quite homogeneous at a higher voltage. It has been found that the micro-discharges tend to be generated at the region with small gap width, and then move to the region with large gap width along the flowing gas. Therefore, dielectric barrier discharge with a fairly large gap width can be obtained at a rather lowered voltage. Based on the visualization of the discharge with exposure time of several microseconds, it has been found that micro-discharge filament consists of the volumetric discharge between the two electrodes and the stochastic surface discharge on the dielectric for the filamentary discharge. The stripe on the image taken with exposure time of several milliseconds results from the moving of the volumetric discharge along the gas flow, and the homogeneous corona is a superimposition of the surface discharge at different half cycles. These results are of great importance for industrial applications of the atmospheric pressure uniform discharge.

Key words: Dielectric barrier discharge, Discharge filament, Surface discharge