Reply on the Comments on "Initiation of Pulsed Corona Discharge Under Supercritical Conditions" by C. H. Zhang, J. M. K. MacAlpine, and H. Akiyama

• Published in: IEEE transactions on plasma science Vol. 34; no. 5; pp. 2467 - 2468
• Main Authors: Lock, E.H., Saveliev, A.V., Kennedy, L.A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01-10-2006; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Breakdown; Breakdown voltage; Carbon dioxide; Coaxial components; Corona; discharge; Electric breakdown; Electric fields; Electrodes; Gas flow; Geometry; Indium tin oxide; Ions; Linear approximation; Partial discharges; Plasma; Plasma measurements; supercritical
• ISSN: 0093-3813; 1939-9375
• DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.883368

Generation of plasma under supercritical conditions is of fundamental and applied interest. In this paper, the reduced electric fields required for breakdown of gaseous and supercritical carbon dioxide are comparatively analyzed for planar and coaxial cylindrical geometries. The indirect comparison of measured breakdown voltages suggests an essential change in the ionization mechanism both for uniform and nonuniform fields