Abstract
The influence of adding chlorine on the characteristics of a dielectric barrier discharge in Argon is investigated on the basis of a one-dimensional fluid model. The spatio-temporal characteristics of the discharge are obtained by applying a sinusoidal voltage with a frequency and amplitude of 7 kHz and 350 V, respectively. The study shows that the discharge has a homogeneous feature across the electrodes and has only one current pulse per half cycle of the applied voltage. The calculated electric field and electric potential as well as species number densities indicated that the discharge is in glow mode, and adding chlorine as electronegative gas up to 50% does not change its mode. It is observed that the most abundant negative species are Cl− ions even in low additive chlorine. As a result, the maximum of plasma electronegativity takes place at 30% amounts of chlorine additive. The study of plasma radiations on the discharge gap shows that the main spontaneous emissions are observed at the wavelengths of 128.5 nm and 258 nm due to de-excitation of ArCl* and Cl2* molecules, respectively. Between different Ar/Cl2 mixtures, 0.99Ar−0.01Cl2 has the nearly uniform radiation in the positive column region.
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