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The present work deals with the study of an atmospheric pressure Argon plasma in a parallel-plate dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) by a one-dimensional particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo code, supposing that the reactor gap is much smaller than the plate area of electrodes. Electron-neutral collisions, both elastic and inelastic, have been considered, including superelastic collisions and electron impact ionizations. The kinetic model has been coupled self-consistently with a proper electric circuit model.
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