Surface cleaning of metal wire by atmospheric pressure plasma

Microelectric Discharge Plasma: Characterization and Applications

“…Electric discharge plasma in air is gaining more importance in surface cleaning of material [1], surface modification on material [2], deposition [3], machining [4], and photoresistor etching [5]. The advantage of discharge in air is the in-expensive atmospheric arrangement without any requirement of high vacuum system.…”

Air Temperature Measurement and Monitoring Inside Cold Plasma Treatment Reactor for Steel Wire Surface Cleaning Using Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG)

“…It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the effects of common practice of wet-chemicals in wire surface cleaning industry, for example, the use of tri-chloroethane (1,1,1-TCE) cleaning solvent, which has been restricted by international agreement due to its harmful effects towards central nervous system, eventually led to confusion as well as dizziness [3]. The past two decades have witnessed a significant interest in wire surface cleaning using plasma treatment [2][3][4][5][6]. Initial work by Choi et al, [3] proved that plasma exposure on aluminium wire surface showed better surface cleaning compared to tri-chloroethane (1,1,1-TCE) cleaning solvent treatment.…”

“…Initial work by Choi et al, [3] proved that plasma exposure on aluminium wire surface showed better surface cleaning compared to tri-chloroethane (1,1,1-TCE) cleaning solvent treatment. Other works by Korzec et al, [4], Kettler et al, [5] and Nakamura et al, [6] also reported the effectiveness of plasma treatment on metal wire surface cleaning with improvement in terms of surface wettability as well as surface morphology [4][5][6].…”

“…Several performance evaluation techniques such as surface roughness profile [22][23] and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis [2][3]6] can be carried out in order to determine the influence of gas temperature measurement and monitoring on plasma treatment towards the metal wire surface cleaning effectiveness. Surface roughness profile was determined by detecting the uneven metal surface with peaks of various heights.…”

Effect of Dielectric in a Plasma Annealing System at Atmospheric Pressure

“…However, this method has some drawbacks: low efficiency due to the division of the annealing and cleaning processes and environmentally harmful because of using chemical to clean thin wire, for example, Tri-chloethane, it is hazardous to human body and has ozone layer effect. The new annealing system in which the annealing and cleaning processes are simultaneously operated in Atmospheric Pressure DielectricBarrier Discharge (APDBD) [5][6][7][8][9] is the potential solution for these drawbacks. In previous studied, it is shown that wire annealing [10,11] and cleaning [12] using APDBD is totally possible.…”