Plasma sheath evolution from perturbed electrodes in a negative-ion plasma. Part 2. Experiment and PIC simulation

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 58, Issue PART 3, 1997, Pages 455-466

  Yi, Seungjun ^a   El Zein, Yasser ^b   Lonngren, Karl E ^a,b   Sheridan, Terence E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; IONS;

PARTICLE IN CELL (PIC) SIMULATION;

PLASMA SHEATHS;

EID: 0031249875     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022377897006065     Document Type: Article

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