Digital smoothing of the Langmuir probe I-V characteristic

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Magnus, F ^a   Gudmundsson, J T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; HEALTH; LANGMUIR PROBES; MAGNETRONS;

DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; ELECTRON ENERGY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; ELECTROSTATIC PROBES; GAUSSIAN FILTERING; I-V CHARACTERISTICS; LANGMUIR; MINIMAL DISTORTION; NOISE-SUPPRESSION; NOISY DATA; PLASMA DISCHARGES; POLYNOMIAL FITTINGS; SAVITZKY-GOLAY; SECOND DERIVATIVES;

WAVE FILTERS;

EID: 49149092005     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2956970     Document Type: Article

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