毛细管放电等离子体是近年来发展起来的一种新型脉冲高能粒子源,可以产生高温、高密和高速等离子体射流,具有推进、发射、加速等功能,可以加热或引燃化学工质,具有广泛的应用前景.介绍了毛细管等离子体的基本原理和特点,综述了国内外研究现状,对毛细管等离子体应用前景进行了展望,以期引起我国对这一技术研究的重视,促进毛细管等离子体技术的发展.

Capillary discharge plasma is a new type of high pulsed energy particle source which is recently developed. Plasma jets with high temperature, high density and hypersonic velocity can be produced by high voltage discharge between two electrodes of a capillary. It can be used for projection of microparticle, acceleration of powder material and ignition and heating of chemical propellant. Such a technique has wide applications in industry, science and national defense. This paper presented the basic theory and characteristics of capillary plasma jets and introduced the research status quo and its applications so that this technology could be paid attention to by people and developed in our country.