First Experimental Measurements of the Plasma Potential throughout the Presheath and Sheath at a Boundary in a Weakly Collisional Plasma

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 14, 2002, Pages

  Oksuz, L ^a   Hershkowitz, N ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; FLUORESCENCE; IONS; LASER BEAMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; PLASMA PROBES;

ELECTRON-FREE COLLISIONLESS SHEATH; ION-NEUTRAL COLLISION; LANGMUIR PROBE; WEAKLY COLLISIONAL PLASMA;

PLASMA SHEATHS;

EID: 45849155588     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.145001     Document Type: Article

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