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This document summarizes a 5-day experiment conducted in a special plasma laboratory. [Day 1 introduces plasma and the vacuum chamber. Day 2 describes the vacuum chamber materials. Day 3 involves measuring the vacuum chamber. Day 4 generates plasma and measures the current-voltage relationship. Day 5 varies the gas pressure and measures the corresponding voltage to generate a Paschen curve.]

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SPL Report 1

This document summarizes a 5-day experiment conducted in a special plasma laboratory. [Day 1 introduces plasma and the vacuum chamber. Day 2 describes the vacuum chamber materials. Day 3 involves measuring the vacuum chamber. Day 4 generates plasma and measures the current-voltage relationship. Day 5 varies the gas pressure and measures the corresponding voltage to generate a Paschen curve.]

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REPORT ON SPECIAL PLASMA LABORATORY (SPL801)\

by

Dhvani pate(UIAR:11168)

INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED RESEARCH


Contents

1.Day1(introduction)
2.Day 2 (information about vacuum chamber)
3. Day 3 (measurement of vacuum chamber)
4.Day 4 (generation of plasma)
a. Hysteresis loop(varying voltage measurement of
current)
5.Day 5
b. Paschen’s curve (varying pressure measurement of
current )
1.introduction:

• Plasma definition: Plasma definition: A plasma is quasi-neutral


charged and neutral particles which exhibits collective behavior.
• Plasma is “fourth state of matter.”
• classification of plasma:
-Hot plasma(thermal plasma)
-warm plasma
-cold plasma(non-thermal plasma)
- ultra-cold plasma
• Some examples of forms of plasma:
-Aurora
-Solar wind
-Welding gas
-Stars
-The earth’s ionosphere
• Gases are used to make a plasma:
-Hydrogen (purple)
-Helium (pink)
-Neon (red)
-Nitrogen (orange)
-Oxygen(blue)
-Argon(deeply purple)
• Plasma can be reach temperature of hundred or thousand or
millions of degree.
• Plasma physics to gives a temperature in unit of energy,
1eV=116000°K
• Experiment 1:Generate a vacuum in vacuum chamber by
using rotary mechanical pump.
-we can generate vacuum by removing all particles form the
chamber. So, here we are using the rotary pump to generate a
vacuum in the chamber.
-in this rotary pump three types of cable: red, blue & yellow.
-rotary pump used to produce a high energy.

Day 2:

• Vacuum chamber is made of SS304.


• SS304 is most widely used authentic stainless steel.
• SS304 known as “18/8” stainless steel because of its
composition, which include 18% chromium and 8% nickel and
some percentages of magnesium also.
• SS316 composition, chromium 16 – 18%,nickel 10-14%,
molybdenum 2-3%.
• SS202 is not used in vacuum chamber.
• ISO 9000 Standards describes a Quality Management system.
Day:3

we measure the plasma chamber’s flanges and flanges are drawn in


auto Cad which is attached with mail.
Day:4

EXPERIMENT:2 I-V characteristic of glow discharge plasma

Procedure: 1. create a vacuum in chamber by using rotary pump.


2.Then we introduce an argon gas in vacuum chamber.
3.we connect power supply between electrode.
4.set the pressure at 0.4 mbar.
5.now, increase the voltage and measure the
corresponding current.

-The measured experimental data is shown in below table:


(pressure=0.4mbar)
voltage(volt) current(ampere)
233 2
249 3
267 4
275 6
268 5
262 4
255 3
242 2
230 1

-The plot of current (I) vs. voltage are attached with this mail.

Day 5:

• Experiment 3: Paschen curve for argon glow discharge.


• Procedure: 1. create vacuum in chamber by using rotary pump.
2.Insert an argon gas between electrodes at different
pressure and measure voltage till the glow come on the disc, in
between electrode and note down the current and repeat the
procedure for the different pressure.

• The experimental values of voltage and current are shown in


the below table:

pressure(mbar) voltage(volt) current(ampere)


0.2 226 1
0.3 220 1
0.4 220 2
0.5 233 3
0.6 237 5
0.7 245 8
0.8 249 10
0.9 255 14

• voltage vs pressure plot attached with this mail.


• PASCHEN CURVE: Electric discharge between two
electrically charged surfaces occurs at well defined, gas-
dependent combination of atmospheric plasma and the distance
between those surfaces, described by paschen’s law.

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