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Construction of Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition Technique Via Commercial Microwave Oven

International Journal of Electrical and Electronic Science
Vol.5 , No. 2, Publication Date: May 11, 2018, Page: 46-49

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[1]	Nicodemus Kure, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria.
[2]	Nizar Mohd Hamidon, Institute of Advanced Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
[3]	Isaac Hyuk Daniel, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria.
[4]	Abdullahi Anderson Kassimu, Airforce Research and Development Centre, Kaduna, Nigeria.
[5]	Sunday Habila Sarki, Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Kaduna, Nigeria.

Abstract

In this study, Commercial microwave oven with operating power of 600 W was used to irradiate the vacuum tube at atmospheric pressure of 0.8 mbar with 2.45 GHz frequency, which leads to the formation of plasma in the tubular reactor. The generated plasma utilizes Microwave heating as an alternative to conventional heating. Microwave plasmas are basically electrodeless gas discharge plasma which consists of high frequency electromagnetic radiation in the GHz range. The cylindrical Quartz tube of 30 cm x 10 cm in dimension is inserted horizontally across the microwave cavity. A vacuum pump was used to reduce the pressure of the quartz tube to atmospheric pressure for four (4) minutes. There was a formation of whitish ionize gas when the microwave oven is switch on. The temperature of the plasma ball was measured using K-Thermocouple at 750°C of a ball size of 8 cm x 10 cm in dimension. Pressure, Temperature and Surface geometry are considered as standard parameters for plasma generation.

Keywords

Plasma, Microwave Oven, Electromagnetic Radiation, Fluke Multimeter, K-Thermocouple

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