Discharge characteristics of plasma jet at atmospheric pressure and its sterilization efficacy

A plasma jetting system with the use of the coaxial dielectric barrier electrodes is introduced. It can create glow discharge helium plasma in the air, and be applied to sterilization without both reaction vessel and vacuum system. Some factors such as the electrode voltage, the frequency of power supply and the gas flow rate are considered to recognize the features of the plasma created. Higher voltage between electrodes will lead to larger discharge current, and the peak discharge current moves forward in each voltage half cycle. But over-loaded voltage will cause filamentary discharge, which is not expected in the experiment. Increasing the frequency of supply power will give rise to the peak value of discharge current and the ejection distance of the plasma. In addition, faster gas flo