Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Enhanced Magnetron and Mesh Separation Effects in Cyclonic Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Surface Modification of Polyethylene Terephthalate

Abstract

The correlation of plasma surface modification consequence and the electron characteristics in plasma state with the enhanced magnetron source and metal mesh screen are studied by cyclonic-atmospheric-pressure plasma on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) surface. The contact angle measurement is employed to examine the plasma modified PET surface hydrophilicity. Optical emission spectroscopy is used to detect the electronic excitation temperature and electron density in cyclonic atmospheric pressure plasma. The electronic excitation temperature and the electron density are measured as the operational conditions of adding magnetron source and metal mesh separation. Boltzmann plot method is employed to estimate the electronic excitation temperature whereas electron density measurement by the Voigt profile. The results show that both electronic excitation temperature and electron density have similar trend i.e., both increasing with the enhanced magnetron source while decreasing trend is observed with passing through the metal mesh.