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Dynamics Of Non-Thermal Plasma Jets Under Variable Pressure, Mehmet Arda Akman
Dynamics Of Non-Thermal Plasma Jets Under Variable Pressure, Mehmet Arda Akman
Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Non-thermal plasma (NTP) jets driven by short DC pulses have attracted the attention of researchers within the past decade due to their promising bio-medical applications in the fields of wound healing, cancer treatment and sterilization. The ability to operate at atmospheric pressure, room temperature and simple device configuration has greatly contributed to their appeal and adoption in the plasma science community. However, the mechanisms that sustain the plasma generation and propagation in ambient air are currently a topic of debate. For instance, what appears as a continuous stream of a plasma plume extending outwards from a plasma device into the …
Optimization Framework For A Radio Frequency Gun Based Injector, Alicia S. Hofler
Optimization Framework For A Radio Frequency Gun Based Injector, Alicia S. Hofler
Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Linear accelerator based light sources are used to produce coherent x-ray beams with unprecedented peak intensity. In these devices, the key parameters of the photon beam such as brilliance and coherence are directly dependent on the electron beam parameters. This leads to stringent beam quality requirements for the electron beam source. Radio frequency (RF) guns are used in such light sources since they accelerate electrons to relativistic energies over a very short distance, thus minimizing the beam quality degradation due to space charge effects within the particle bunch. Designing such sources including optimization of its beam parameters is a complex …