A nonthermal plasma, cold plasma or non-equilibrium plasma is a plasma which is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, because the electron temperature is much hotter than the temperature of heavy species (ions and neutrals). As only electrons are thermalized, their Maxwell-Boltzmann velocity distribution is very different from the ion velocity distribution.[1] When one of the velocities of a species does not follow a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, the plasma is said to be non-Maxwellian.
A kind of common nonthermal plasma is the mercury-vapor gas within a fluorescent lamp, where the "electron gas" reaches a temperature of 20,000 K (19,700 °C; 35,500 °F) while the rest of the gas, ions and neutral atoms, stays barely above room temperature, so the bulb can even be touched with hands while operating.
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and ions. The term nonthermalplasma includes anisothermal plasmas and means that the different degrees of freedom of the plasma are not in thermal equilibrium...
synthesized by using nonthermalplasma. The size, shape, surface and composition of quantum dots can all be controlled in nonthermalplasma. Doping that seems...
successful, complete inactivation of the virus in a space using a nonthermalplasma generator. Though the oncolytic effect of NDV was already documented...
atmospheric-pressure plasmas, the temperatures in thermal plasmas are usually above 6000 K. This corresponds to average kinetic energies of less than 1 eV. Nonthermal plasmas...
for the ion distribution is shown in Figure 5. Supporters modeled a nonthermalplasma. The justification is the high amount of scattering in the device...
due to the fast thermal material erosion, it was envisaged to use nonthermalplasmas as working fluids in steady MHD generators, where only free electrons...
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on nuclear isomers, induced radioactivity, Cherenkov radiation and nonthermalplasma. During his doctorate at Berkeley, he had worked with the pioneers...
high-mass ions into the reaction chamber, pollute the plasma, and cool the fuel. In examining nonthermalplasma, workers at LANL realized that scattering was...
regions can produce a variety of observed energy, mostly in the form of a nonthermal spectrum ranging from very low-frequency radio to extremely energetic...
ejection (CME) is a significant ejection of magnetic field and accompanying plasma mass from the Sun's corona into the heliosphere. CMEs are often associated...
Development of Kinetic Mechanisms in Chemically Active Light-Emitting NonthermalPlasmas and Gases". AIP Conf. Proc. 901: 204–2014. doi:10.1063/1.2727370....
solar corona by a plasma instability that occurs when a beam of nonthermal (fast-moving) electrons moves through the ambient plasma. The electron beam...
transported to the object surface by diffusion may release this extra (nonthermal) energy if the surface catalyzes the slower recombination process. For...
using nonthermal weakly ionized gases, making the development of demonstrators much more difficult to realize than for MHD in liquids. "Cold plasmas" with...
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