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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE
卷 29, 期 1, 页码 75-84出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/27.912945
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neutral etching; plasma sonic transition; plasma thrusters
As the area of a plasma increases, the plasma can accelerate smoothly from subsonic to supersonic velocity, The singularity which ordinarily occurs at the sonic velocity is resolved not by charge separation, as is the case for a sheath, but rather by a zero in the numerator at the same spatial position as the zero in the denominator, the sonic point. That is, at the sonic point, the acceleration due to expansion just cancels out the deceleration due to ion and electron neutral collisions. It turns out that, in this configuration, the plasma can accelerate to about three times the ion sound speed. The electron temperature is determined by the geometry, gas species, and, mostly, by the gas pressure. Applications to the production of a stream of neutrals for etching, and to space plasma propulsion are discussed.
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