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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2015-01-14

发表刊物：JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

收录刊物：SCIE、EI、Scopus

卷号：117

期号：2

ISSN号：0021-8979

摘要：An tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy has been used to determine the Ar*(P-3(2)) and Ar*(P-3(0)) metastable atoms densities in dual-frequency capacitively coupled plasmas. The effects of different control parameters, such as high-frequency power, gas pressure and content of Ar, on the densities of two metastable atoms and electron density were discussed in single-frequency and dual-frequency Ar discharges, respectively. Particularly, the effects of the pressure on the axial profile of the electron and Ar metastable state densities were also discussed. Furthermore, a simple rate model was employed and its results were compared with experiments to analyze the main production and loss processes of Ar metastable states. It is found that Ar metastable state is mainly produced by electron impact excitation from the ground state, and decayed by diffusion and collision quenching with electrons and neutral molecules. Besides, the addition of CF4 was found to significantly increase the metastable destruction rate by the CF4 quenching, especially for large CF4 content and high pressure, it becomes the dominant depopulation process. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.