Negative mobilities of electrons in radio frequency fields

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 31, Issue 4 II, 2003, Pages 711-716

  Dujko, Saša ^a   Raspopović, Zoran M ^a   Petrović, Zoran Lj ^a   Makabe, Toshiaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drift velocity; Electron transport; Nonequilibrium; Radio frequency (RF) plasmas

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; IONIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) PLASMAS;

PLASMAS;

EID: 0042929506     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2003.815468     Document Type: Article

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