The impact of Langmuir probe geometries on electron current collection and the integral relation for obtaining electron energy distribution functions

Plasma Sources Science and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Saghir, Ahmed El ^a,b   Shannon, Steven ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Alexandria University The Faculty Of Engineering   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY GEOMETRY; CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; ELECTRON CURRENT COLLECTION; ELECTRON CURRENTS; ELECTRON ENERGY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRIC DIFFERENCE; INTEGRAL RELATIONS; LANGMUIRS; NON-MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTION; PROBE CURRENTS; PROBE GEOMETRY; SPHERICAL PROBES;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); GEOMETRY; LANGMUIR PROBES; PROBES;

ELECTRON ENERGY ANALYZERS;

EID: 84857991436     PISSN: 09630252     EISSN: 13616595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/21/2/025003     Document Type: Article

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