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This paper discusses a lithium battery-driven cold plasma jet at atmospheric pressure with a pulsed power supply of design and its simulation. H.V. DC(High voltage directed current) and pulsed discharge circuit comprise of the entire pulse power system. H.V. DC circuit using TIs TMS320F28335 chips as the core of the circuit control module, the chip improves the stability of the H.V.DC circuits. Pulsed discharge circuit design plays a crucial impact on the formation of the narrowed pulses. A new double pulsed discharge circuit is designed by the proposed program. As discharge experiment shown finally, the steep narrowed pulse of pulsed power supply can be used to stabilize the output of the pulsed front.

In order to obtain stable cold plasma jet under atmospheric pressure condition, we designed a high-voltage DC power supply based on the principle of multilayer piezoelectric ceramic transformer (MPT). At the same time, we developed a cold plasma jet device that its shape is similar to the gun structure. The total weight of device, including the power supply and the generator, is less than 500 g. In the experiments of argon plasma under atmospheric pressure, current–voltage measurements show that the discharge actually appears periodically pulsed with a frequency of about 30 kHz. The discharge current has a pulse-width that is about 100 ns, while its peak value reaches about 32 mA. The maximum length of the plasma is about 3 cm. The further study showed that the discharge current pulse frequency is determined by the ion drift mechanism.