Disturbance of a Langmuir probe at the steady-state sheath boundary in a drifting plasma

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 422-428

  Kwok, Dixon T K ^a,b   Bilek, M M M ^a,b   McKenzie, D R ^b   Oates, T W H ^b   Chu, Paul K ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD-LANGMUIR LAW; LANGMUIR PROBE; PARTICLE-IN-CELL METHOD; PLASMA MEASUREMENTS; SHEATH BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS; STEATY STATE SHEATH BOUNDARY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; IONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMA SHEATHS; PLASMA SIMULATION; POISSON EQUATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

PLASMA PROBES;

EID: 4344596520     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.826027     Document Type: Article

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