Determination of state-to-state electron-impact rate coefficients between Ar excited states: A review of combined diagnostic experiments in afterglow plasmas

Plasma Sources Science and Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Zhu, Xi Ming ^a   Cheng, Zhi Wen ^b   Carbone, Emile ^a   Pu, Yi Kang ^b   Czarnetzki, Uwe ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

collisional radiative model; combined diagnostics; electron impact rate coefficient; low temperature plasma

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRONS; EXCITED STATES; GROUND STATE; IMPACT IONIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); TEMPERATURE;

COLLISIONAL RADIATIVE MODEL; COMBINED DIAGNOSTICS; ELECTRON-IMPACT EXCITATION; ELECTRON-IMPACT PROCESS; LOW TEMPERATURE PLASMAS; MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS; RATE COEFFICIENTS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84979584061     PISSN: 09630252     EISSN: 13616595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/25/4/043003     Document Type: Review

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