Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Reactor for Extended Solids Production Phase II

A pulsed high voltage DC power supply will be used drive an atmospheric pressure plasma reactor with the goal of developing a design for the purpose of depositing extended solids in high volume. The reactor falls within the category of dielectric barrier discharges where a dielectric barrier covers at least one of the two parallel plate electrodes. It is a non-equilibrium reactor where electron temperature is much higher than ion temperature such that the gas temperature remains low over a wide range of operational parameters. Low temperature operation is important to successful growth of temperature sensitive solids. By increasing pulse frequency, electrode area and surface area, the deposition rate of solids can be increased to 10s of grams to kilograms per day.