22–28 Jun 2019
DoubleTree at the Entrance to Universal Orlando
America/New_York timezone

Inductively Coupled Plasma at Atmospheric Pressure, a Challenge for Miniature Devices

26 Jun 2019, 16:30
15m
Gold Coast III/IV (Double Tree at the Entrance to Universal Orlando)

Gold Coast III/IV

Double Tree at the Entrance to Universal Orlando

Oral 2.7 Microwave Plasma Interaction 2.7 Microwave Plasma Interaction III

Speaker

Horia-Eugen Porteanu (Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenzte)

Description

Inductively coupled plasma (ICP) sources are preferred to the capacitive (CCP) sources because of their higher electron density and plasma purity. The use of microwaves for the plasma excitation allows not only to obtain a dense plasma with a low gas temperature but also to generate such a plasma at higher pressures. We present a miniaturized device capable of working up to atmospheric pressure. The plasma is generated in a quartz tube with an outer diameter of 7 – 12 mm. The microwave plasma interaction has been studied using an original method, the “Hot-S-Parameter” spectroscopy, presented in detail in [1]. The variation of the resonance frequency and generally of the reflected power as a function of frequency provides information about the type of coupling and about the plasma conductivity, i.e., electron density and scattering frequency. The microwave data are correlated with photographs of the plasma shape and with results of the optical emission spectroscopy (OES) of nitrogen [2]. At 1000 Pa, and 80 W at 2.45 GHz, a nitrogen plasma reaches an electron density of 3 10$^{19}$ m$^{-3}$ and a gas temperature of 1600 K [2]. The miniaturized source includes an impedance matching circuit. Based on microwave and optical measurements we estimate the power absorbed by the plasma at 1000 Pa to be about 60 % of the incident power. This efficiency is much higher than in standard reactors driven at 13.56 MHz. The source has been successfully tested with argon at atmospheric pressure. This fact opens new perspectives for the use as an array of remote plasma sources for thin-film depositions.
[1] Porteanu H-E, et al. “ Correlated Mode Analysis of a Microwave Driven ICP Source“, 2019 PSST. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ab06a7.
[2] Stefanović I, et al. “Optical Characterization of a Novel Miniature Microwave ICP Plasma Source using Nitrogen”, 2018 PSST, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/aaefcc

Primary author

Horia-Eugen Porteanu (Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenzte)

Co-authors

Dr Ilija Stefanovic (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology, Germany) Dr Bibinov Nikita (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology, Germany) Mr Michael Klute (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Institute for Theoretical Electrical Engineering, Germany) Prof. Peter Awakowicz (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology, Germany) Prof. Ralf-Peter Brinkmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Institute for Theoretical Electrical Engineering, Germany) Prof. Wolfgang Heinrich (Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Berlin, Germany)

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