Physical and numerical methods of speeding up particle codes and paralleling as applied to RF discharges

Plasma Sources Science and Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 413-428

  Kawamura, E ^a   Birdsall, C K ^a   Vahedi, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTROSTATICS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OXYGEN; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA SIMULATION;

PARTICLE-IN-CELL (PIC) SIMULATION;

PLASMA SOURCES;

EID: 0034247805     PISSN: 09630252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/9/3/319     Document Type: Article

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