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Nonlocal behavior of electron fluxes and excitation rates for "local" EEDF in moderate and high pressures DC positive column plasmas

  • Alexander S. Chirtsov*
  • , Kirill D. Kapustin
  • , Anatoly A. Kudryavtsev
  • , Evgeny A. Bogdanov
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • St. Petersburg State University

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Abstract

Kinetic simulations of a direct-current positive-column Ar plasma revealed that electron fluxes are sensitive to energy dependence of an elastic collision cross section. Paradoxical behavior of the electron flux in a coordinate-energy phase space is presented. The direction of the electron flux at the elastic energy region (5-10 eV) in whole volume, except the region near the wall, turned out to be oppositely directed to that conventionally assumed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5770235
Pages (from-to)2580-2581
Number of pages2
JournalIEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume39
Issue number11 PART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Electron kinetic
  • plasma physics

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