Glow discharge with diminishing neutral plasma


Demokan O., Akman S.

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, cilt.92, sa.8, ss.4245-4248, 2002 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 92 Sayı: 8
  • Basım Tarihi: 2002
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1063/1.1486056
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.4245-4248
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

In this work, the anode-cathode distance in a direct current glow discharge is reduced manually to values smaller than the Child-Langmuir extent, while the discharge current, the discharge voltage and the Langmuir probe current are monitored continuously. The discharge current is observed to develop a large peak as soon as the sheath edge contacts with the anode, then decays to negligible values for a certain time interval, after which, this cycle starts repeating itself periodically. A model is described to interpret the behavior of all three quantities self-consistently. The experiment is performed with different anode-cathode distances and the implications of the observations regarding ion implantation processes are discussed. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.