Measurement of electron sheath thickness and collection region of electric probe using laser photodetachment signals

Simple item page
dc.creatorKajita, Shin
dc.creatorKado, Shinichiro
dc.creatorOkamoto, Atsushi
dc.creatorShikama, Taiichi
dc.creatorIida, Yohei
dc.creatorYamasaki, Daisuke
dc.creatorTanaka, Satoru
dc.date2004-10-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:53:06Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:53:06Z
dc.descriptionA new type of laser photodetachment (LPD) technique has been developed for the measurement of electron sheath thickness around an electrostatic probe and for the measurement of the length of collection region of photodetached electrons (PDE). When a thickness of the sheath formed around an electrostatic probe is thicker than about 0.1 mm, modification of the temporal evolution of the LPD signal is observed. By making use of the modification, we evaluated sheath thickness around a cylindrical probe in the existence of the magnetic field of 15 mT. It was found that the thickness of electron sheath along the magnetic field was comparable to the calculated plane-parallel Child-Langmuir sheath thickness when the probe-bias voltage was high. Furthermore, by inserting a small screening object in the laser beam channel, we can measure the sheath thickness from the modification of LPD signal. From the variation of the signal intensity as scanning the screening object perpendicular to the laser beam channel, we can observe the collection region of photodetached electrons, because this procedure changes the relative displacement between shadow and the probe electrode.
dc.description12th International Congress on Plasma Physics, 25-29 October 2004, Nice (France)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0410187
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0410187
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/86529
dc.subjectPlasma Physics
dc.titleMeasurement of electron sheath thickness and collection region of electric probe using laser photodetachment signals
dc.typetext

Files

Collections

arXiv