Thomson scattering on argon surfatron plasmas at intermediate pressures: Axial profiles of the electron temperature and electron density

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 225-233

  Palomares, J M ^b   Iordanova, E ^a   van Veldhuizen, E M ^a   Baede, L ^a   Gamero, A ^b   Sola, A ^b   van der Mullen, J J A M ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Critical density; Electron density; Electron temperature; Surfatron; Thomson scattering

Indexed keywords

AXIAL PROFILES; COLLISIONLESS REGIME; CRITICAL DENSITY; CRITICAL VALUE; ELECTRON ATOM COLLISIONS; ELECTRON DENSITIES; ELECTRON DENSITY; INTERMEDIATE PRESSURES; LASER IRRADIATIONS; MICROWAVE LAUNCHER; MICROWAVE POWER; PLASMA COLUMNS; POSITIVE COLUMN; POWER LEADS; PRESSURE RANGES; THOMSON SCATTERING; WAVE INTERACTIONS;

ARGON; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COLLISIONLESS PLASMAS; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; SCATTERING; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77950924377     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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