Reduction of EEDF measurement distortion in regularized solutions of the Druyvesteyn relation

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1 PART 2, 2011, Pages 596-602

  El Saghir, Ahmed ^a   Shannon, Steven ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron energy distribution function (EEDF); ill posed problems; Tikhonov regularization; truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD)

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ALTERNATIVE METHODS; DATA SMOOTHING; EASE OF USE; ELECTRON CURRENTS; ELECTRON ENERGY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENERGY SPACES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH ENERGY; ILL POSED PROBLEM; INTEGRAL PROBLEMS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION; TRUNCATED SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ALGORITHMS; CURVE FITTING; DISSOCIATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; EULER EQUATIONS; ION BEAMS; PROBES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ELECTRON ENERGY ANALYZERS;

EID: 78651338623     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2010.2090906     Document Type: Conference Paper

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