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Perspective: The physics, diagnostics, and applications of atmospheric pressure low temperature plasma sources used in plasma medicine
- Source :
- Journal of Applied Physics. 122:020901
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2017.
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Abstract
- Low temperature plasmas have been used in various plasma processing applications for several decades. But it is only in the last thirty years or so that sources generating such plasmas at atmospheric pressure in reliable and stable ways have become more prevalent. First, in the late 1980s, the dielectric barrier discharge was used to generate relatively large volume diffuse plasmas at atmospheric pressure. Then, in the early 2000s, plasma jets that can launch cold plasma plumes in ambient air were developed. Extensive experimental and modeling work was carried out on both methods and much of the physics governing such sources was elucidated. Starting in the mid-1990s, low temperature plasma discharges have been used as sources of chemically reactive species that can be transported to interact with biological media, cells, and tissues and induce impactful biological effects. However, many of the biochemical pathways whereby plasma affects cells remain not well understood. This situation is changing rather ...
- Subjects :
- 010302 applied physics
Physics
Atmospheric pressure
Chemistry
Analytical chemistry
General Physics and Astronomy
Low temperature plasma
Plasma
Dielectric barrier discharge
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
Computational physics
Ambient air
Volume (thermodynamics)
0103 physical sciences
Plasma medicine
Plasma processing
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10897550 and 00218979
- Volume :
- 122
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Applied Physics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6e1f4de1b05c2c6d79e78410ad7ba745