Experimental studies of the Bohm criterion in a two-ion-species plasma using laser-induced fluorescence

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 145001/1-145001/4

  Severn, G D ^a,b   Wang, Xu ^a   Ko, Eunsuk ^a   Hershkowitz, N ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ARGON; CALCULATIONS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; FLUORESCENCE; HELIUM; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; POSITIVE IONS; TEMPERATURE;

BOHM CRITERION; ION VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; SHEATH EDGE; TWO ION SPECIES PLASMA; UNMAGNETIZED DC HOT FILAMENT DISCHARGE;

PLASMA THEORY;

EID: 0037865521     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.145001     Document Type: Article

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