Abstract
Previously, a microplasma was discovered in the rear gap of a sliding contact. This plasma is called a ‘triboplasma’, the behaviour of which obeys the Paschen law in a gas discharge. The generation of the triboplasma has been explained to be generated by discharging of ambient air due to the intense electric field caused by tribocharging, based on the experimental findings.In this report, the mechanism of triboplasma generation is theoretically analysed using the particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo collision (PIC/MCC) simulation method for the triboplasma generated in the tribosystem, where a diamond pin slides against a sapphire disc in ambient air. Two-dimensional sideward density distributions of the electrons, ions and ions in the rear gap of the sliding contact are obtained theoretically by the PIC/MCC method. These calculated particle distributions coincided well with the triboplasma distributions experimentally observed. The previously proposed triboplasma generation due to gas discharging is verified theoretically using the PIC/MCC simulation method.
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