Breakdown of a space charge limited regime of a sheath in a weakly collisional plasma bounded by Walls with secondary electron emission

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Sydorenko, D ^a,c   Kaganovich, I ^b   Raitses, Y ^b   Smolyakov, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK PLASMA; COLLISIONAL PLASMA; ELECTRON VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EMISSION COEFFICIENT; HOT PLASMAS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PLASMA BULK; PLASMA WALL INTERACTION; RELAXATION OSCILLATION; SECONDARY ELECTRON EMISSIONS; SECONDARY ELECTRONS; SPACE-CHARGE LIMITED; SPACE-CHARGE-LIMITED REGIMES;

CELL MEMBRANES; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRONS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; PLASMA SHEATHS;

SECONDARY EMISSION;

EID: 70349929396     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.145004     Document Type: Article

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