EPJ Techn Instrum (2017) 4: 1
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjti/s40485-016-0036-z

Research article

Analysis of passive calorimetric probe measurements at high energy influxes

¹ Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel University, Kiel, 24098, Germany
² Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology, Greifswald, 17489, Germany

^* e-mail: kewitz@physik.uni-kiel.de

Received: 11 July 2016
Accepted: 19 December 2016
Published online: 19 January 2017

Abstract

High energy influxes increase the complexity of passive calorimetric probe measurements because of an increasing temperature of the surrounding materials like the probe holder. This leads to a distinctively different evolution of the probe temperature compared to low energy influxes. Different established methods for the analysis of passive calorimetric probe data are presented and it is shown that they are not applicable for high energy influx measurements resulting in the requirement of a novel analysis approach. Such an approach is given in this paper by the combination of the exponential and the linear method. The high energy influx measurements are studied for a commercial atmospheric pressure plasma jet, in order to illustrate our suggested modified approach.