Patent ID: 8502108

Claim:
A device for the creation of a high pressure plasma, comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode, spaced from the first electrode; wherein the first and second electrodes define at least one microhollow formed through the first electrode and the second electrode; a circuit for creating an electrical potential between the first electrode and the second electrode, such that the first electrode is a cathode and the second electrode is an anode, at a voltage and direct current for producing high pressure microhollow discharges in each of the at least one microhollow formed through the first electrode and the second electrode; a gas supply for supplying gas into each of the at least one microhollow at the second electrode so as to create a gas plasma jet exiting the at least one microhollow at the first electrode, and wherein the microhollow and gas supply are configured such that the gas plasma jet has a gas flow rate at about or above the critical Reynolds number.