Open AccessOn the reasons of spatial heterogeneity of the plasma chemical composition in ablation controlled discharges
Author(s) -
А. С. Пащина
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1698/1/012008
Subject(s) - chemical composition , plasma , ionization , capillary action , stoichiometry , mole fraction , analytical chemistry (journal) , laser ablation , fraction (chemistry) , hydrogen , chemistry , materials science , chemical physics , laser , ion , environmental chemistry , chromatography , optics , organic chemistry , composite material , physics , quantum mechanics
The reasons of spatial heterogeneity of the plasma chemical composition in ablation controlled discharges are analyzed. The “locking” of atoms of chemical elements with a low ionization potential in the vicinity of a negatively charged wall due to the backflow of a significant fraction of ionized atoms onto the wall is considered as one of the effective mechanisms of plasma demixing and change of its chemical composition in comparison with the initial stoichiometry of the ablating substance. The proposed approach is consistent with the results of spectroscopic studies of a capillary discharge with an ablating wall (polymethylmethacrylate), during which a significant decrease in the carbon mole fraction with a simultaneous increase in the hydrogen mole fraction in the discharge core was revealed. According to the obtained results, the physical processes leading to the spatial separation of chemical elements occur exactly in the capillary spatial domain. The observed demixing of the plasma jet is manly a consequence of the processes that take place inside the capillary.