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Control of plasma properties in a short direct-current glow discharge with active boundaries. / Adams, S. F.; Demidov, V. I.; Bogdanov, E. A.; Koepke, M. E.; Kudryavtsev, A. A.; Kurlyandskaya, I. P.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Control of plasma properties in a short direct-current glow discharge with active boundaries
AU - Adams, S. F.
AU - Demidov, V. I.
AU - Bogdanov, E. A.
AU - Koepke, M. E.
AU - Kudryavtsev, A. A.
AU - Kurlyandskaya, I. P.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - To demonstrate controlling electron/metastable density ratio and electron temperature by applying negative voltages to the active (conducting) discharge wall in a low-pressure plasma with nonlocal electron energy distribution function, modeling has been performed in a short (lacking the positive-column region) direct-current glow discharge with a cold cathode. The applied negative voltage can modify the trapping of the low-energy part of the energetic electrons that are emitted from the cathode sheath and that arise from the atomic and molecular processes in the plasma within the device volume. These electrons are responsible for heating the slow, thermal electrons, while production of slow electrons (ions) and metastable atoms is mostly due to the energetic electrons with higher energies. Increasing electron temperature results in increasing decay rate of slow, thermal electrons (ions), while decay rate of metastable atoms and production rates of slow electrons (ions) and metastable atoms practically are unchanged. The result is in the variation of electron/metastable density ratio and electron temperature with the variation of the wall negative voltage.
AB - To demonstrate controlling electron/metastable density ratio and electron temperature by applying negative voltages to the active (conducting) discharge wall in a low-pressure plasma with nonlocal electron energy distribution function, modeling has been performed in a short (lacking the positive-column region) direct-current glow discharge with a cold cathode. The applied negative voltage can modify the trapping of the low-energy part of the energetic electrons that are emitted from the cathode sheath and that arise from the atomic and molecular processes in the plasma within the device volume. These electrons are responsible for heating the slow, thermal electrons, while production of slow electrons (ions) and metastable atoms is mostly due to the energetic electrons with higher energies. Increasing electron temperature results in increasing decay rate of slow, thermal electrons (ions), while decay rate of metastable atoms and production rates of slow electrons (ions) and metastable atoms practically are unchanged. The result is in the variation of electron/metastable density ratio and electron temperature with the variation of the wall negative voltage.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.4941259
DO - 10.1063/1.4941259
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84957600474
VL - 23
JO - Physics of Plasmas
JF - Physics of Plasmas
SN - 1070-664X
IS - 2
M1 - 024501
ER -
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