Analysis of chamber simulations of long collecting probes in high-speed dense plasmas

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 5 II, 2002, Pages 2023-2034

  Gilchrist, Brian E ^a   Bilén, Sven G ^b   Choinière, Éric ^a   Gallimore, Alec D ^a   Smith, Timothy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrodynamic tethers; High voltage sheath; Langmuir probes; Orbital motion limited sheath; Plasma current collection

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ION BEAMS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA SOURCES;

DEBYE LENGTHS; ELECTRODYNAMIC TETHERS; LANGMUIR PROBES; ORBITAL MOTION LIMITED CURRENT COLLECTION THEORY; SOFTWARE PACKAGE LABVIEW;

PLASMA PROBES;

EID: 0036826778     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.807538     Document Type: Article

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