Negative-ion-source modeling: From expansion to extraction region

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4 PART 2, 2008, Pages 1589-1599

  Taccogna, Francesco ^a   Longo, Savino ^b   Capitelli, Mario ^b   Schneider, Ralf ^c  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ion source; Modeling; Monte Carlo methods

Indexed keywords

ION SOURCE; MODELING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOURCE MODELING; VIBRATIONAL KINETICS;

IONS;

EID: 50649113689     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.927380     Document Type: Article

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