A comparative analysis of the electron energy distribution function obtained by regularization methods and by a least-squares fitting

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 5102-5107

  Gutiérrez Tapia, César ^a   Flores LLamas, Héctor ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES NUCLEARES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STABILITY;

IONIZED GASES; MICROWAVE ENERGY; PLASMA PARAMETERS; REGULARIZATION METHODS;

ELECTRON ENERGY ANALYZERS;

EID: 10944254787     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1802435     Document Type: Article

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