Experimental investigations of the ozone zero phenomenon

Issue		Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. Volume 47, Number 2, August 2009 11th International Symposium on High Pressure, Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (HAKONE XI)


Article Number		22814
Number of page(s)		5
Section		11th International Symposium on High Pressure, Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (HAKONE XI)
DOI		10.1051/epjap/2009075
Published online		28 April 2009

Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. 47, 22814 (2009)
DOI: 10.1051/epjap/2009075

Experimental investigations of the ozone zero phenomenon

K. Murayama¹, N. Matsumura¹, M. Taguchi², Y. Katoh², K. Teranishi³, S. Suzuki¹ and H. Itoh¹

¹ Graduate School, Chiba Institute of Technology, 275-0016 Chiba, Japan
² R&D Center, Metawater Co. Ltd, 290-8511 Chiba, Japan
³ Institute of Technology and Science, The University of Tokushima, 770-8506 Tokushima, Japan

haruo.itoh@it-chiba.ac.jp

Received: 19 December 2008 / Accepted: 28 January 2009 / Published online: 28 April 2009

Abstract
An experimental study is carried out to clarify the mechanism of the ozone zero phenomenon. Temporal variations of both the discharge characteristics and the metallic electrode surface in the ozone generator are investigated by the Lissajous figure method and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), respectively. The AES results suggest that a number of oxygen atoms penetrate into the stainless-steel electrode owing to the exposure to ozone. Such a surface change would result in the temporal variation of the discharge characteristics of the generator.

PACS
52.77.-j - Plasma applications.
52.40.Hf - Plasma-material interactions; boundary layer effects .
82.80.Pv - Electron spectroscopy (X-ray photoelectron (XPS), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), etc.) .

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