1. A Multicell Converter Model of DBD Plasma Discharges.
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Flores-Fuentes, A. A., Peña-Eguiluz, R., López-Callejas, R., Mercado-Cabrera, A., Valencia A., R., Barocio, S. R., Godoy-Cabrera, O. G., de la Piedad-Beneitez, A., Benítez-Read, J. S., and Pacheco-Sotelo, J. O.
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PLASMA displays , *GLOW discharges , *ELECTRODES , *DIELECTRICS , *POWER resources , *DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory) - Abstract
A compact Matlab model of plasma discharges in a DBD reactor consisting of two parallel electrode plates with a small gap and a thin dielectric sheet between them is reported. Its DBD plasma is modelled as a voltage controlled current-source switched on when the voltage across the gap exceeds the breakdown voltage. A three cell voltage-source inverter, configured in half-bridge, has been used as a power supply. This configuration has an excellent performance when operating as an open-loop. The distribution of total energy between a large number of low power converters proofs to be advantageous, allowing an efficient high power drive. Simulation results show that the current source and its output current tend to follow an exponential behaviour. A phenomenological characteristic of the voltage-current behaviour of DBD is then described by power laws with different voltage exponent function values. © 2006 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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