Characterization of the temperature of free electrons diffusing from a magnetically expanding current-free double layer plasma

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Takahashi, Kazunori ^a,b,c   Charles, Christine ^a   Boswell, Rod ^a   Lieberman, Michael A ^a,d   Hatakeyama, Rikizo ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON GAS PRESSURE; ARGON PLASMAS; CURRENT-FREE DOUBLE LAYER; DOWN-STREAM PLASMAS; ELECTRON ENERGY PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; EXPANDING RADIOFREQUENCY PLASMA; FREE ELECTRON; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POTENTIAL DROP; PRESSURE DIFFUSION; SUPERSONIC ION BEAMS;

ARGON; ELECTRON TUBES; ION BEAMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77951042189     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/43/16/162001     Document Type: Article

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