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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 14, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.2803763
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In the high potential plasma, upstream of the double layer, the measured electron energy distribution function (EEDF) shows a very clear change in slope at energies (epsilon(break)) corresponding to the double layer potential drop. Electrons with lower energy are Maxwellian with a temperature of 8 eV, whereas those with higher energy have a temperature of 5 eV. The EEDF in the downstream plasma has a temperature of 5 eV. Over the range of pressures wherein the double layer and accelerated ion beam are detected by analysis of a retarding field energy analyzer, the strength of the double layer corresponds to the energy where the slope changes in the EEDF (epsilon(break)). We deduce that the downstream electrons come from upstream electrons that have sufficient energy to overcome the potential of the double layer, and that only a single upstream plasma source is required to maintain this phenomenon.
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