Spatiotemporal analysis of propagation mechanism of positive primary streamer in water

Currently, further clarification of pre-breakdown phenomena in water such as propagation mechanisms of primary and secondary streamers are needed because applications of aqueous plasma to environmental and medical treatments are increasing. In this study, a series of primary streamer propagations in ultrapure water was visualized at 100-Mega frames per second (100 Mfps) in the range of 400 μm square using an ultra high-speed camera with a microscope lens when a single-shot pulsed positive voltage was applied to a needle electrode placed in a quartz cell. Every observation was synchronized with the waveforms of the applied voltage and the discharge current. The primary streamer, having many filamentary channels, started to propagate semi-spherically with a velocity of about 2 km/s when the pulsed currents occurred. Although most filamentary channels disappeared 400 ns after the beginning of the primary streamer, a few of them continued propagating with almost the same velocity (about 2 km/s) as long as the...

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