N. Gherardi

TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that glow dielectric barrier discharge (GDBD) discharges due to a Townsend initiation and not to a streamer coupling, transit from Townsend to subnormal glow discharge during the current increase.

TL;DR: A review of the literature on atmospheric pressure discharges used for micro-organism inactivation, focused on the inactivation mechanisms, and a presentation of their research results showing, in particular, that UV photons can be the dominant species as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the transition from a glow silent discharge to micro-discharges in nitrogen at atmospheric pressure was studied by emission spectroscopy and electrical measurements, and it was shown that the maximum power that can be used while maintaining a glow discharge depends on the nature of dielectric surface in contact with the gas.

TL;DR: In this article, the electrical characteristics of homogeneous dielectric barrier discharges in helium, argon and nitrogen are presented and discussed, including the time variation of the density of electron, ion, metastable state and electrical field.

TL;DR: In this paper, an electrical model of the discharge and the power supply was developed to study the interaction between these two elements, and a solution was deduced to increase the maximum power dissipated in the discharge which consists in decreasing the solid dielectric capacitance.