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VISUALIZATION OF ION LIGHTNING THROUGH NANOFLUIDIC MEMBRANE
1 , 2 , 2 , * 1, 3, 4
1  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University
2  Department of Material Science and Engineering, Hallym University
3  Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University
4  Big Data Institute, Seoul National University

Abstract:

In this work, for the first time, we visibly generated a lightning through nanoporous membrane in micro/nanofluidic platform. Firstly, a micro bubble was formed by Joule heating inside a microchannel with an application of electric field (E) of 100 V/cm. Secondly, vapor phase was changed into plasma phase and bright light was emitted at |E| = 500 V/cm. Finally, it was observed that emitted light propagated through the perm-selective nanoporous membrane along with strong cation flux. These findings would have a scientific significance for the visualization of cation trajectories inside the nanoporous membrane.

Keywords: Nanofluidics, Nano-electrokinetics, Micro plasma, Electrical breakdown, Nano imaging
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