PIC/MCC Simulations for the Oxygen Microwave Breakdown at Atmospheric Conditions

Abstract:

In this paper, the code of Particle-In-Cell/Monte Carlo Collision (PIC/MCC) for oxygen microwave breakdown is developed. This code is based on the three dimensional particle-in-cell platform CHIPIC, and with a module for increasing the charge of each super-particle. With this PIC/MCC code, the multiplication rate of the electron density and the delay time in oxygen breakdown at atmospheric conditions are researched. The results show: the multiplication rate of the electron density is periodic, and its period is the half of the electric field period; the breakdown delay time in the gas breakdown increases while the frequency of electric field or the gas pressure increases.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 981)
• Pages: 859-862
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.981.859
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Hui Hui Wang*, Da Gang Liu, La Qun Liu, Lin Meng
• Keywords: Microwave Breakdown, Monte Carlo Collision, Particle-In-Cell

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