Self-absorption method in combination with an optical probe: A possibility to determine the radial density profile of rare-gas metastables in low-temperature plasmas

Plasma Sources Science and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Zhu, Xi Ming ^a   Tsankov, Tsanko Vaskov ^a   Czarnetzki, Uwe ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metastable density; Optical emission spectroscopy; Self absorption method

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; INERT GASES; IONIZATION OF GASES; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PROBES; TEMPERATURE;

COLLISIONAL RADIATIVE MODEL; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; INTEGRATED EMISSIONS; LOW TEMPERATURE PLASMAS; METASTABLE SPECIES; RADIAL DENSITY PROFILE; RARE-GAS DISCHARGES; SELF ABSORPTION;

DENSITY OF GASES;

EID: 84937568725     PISSN: 09630252     EISSN: 13616595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/24/3/035023     Document Type: Article

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