On the negative resistance of double layers
Abstract
The negative resistance of double layers has been invoked to explain instability in diode currents, and the flickering aurora phenomenon. In this paper the theory of the negative resistance is extended by a more detailed account of the constraints that are imposed on the electron distributions in the double layer. Attention is concentrated on the energetic trapped electrons which originate at the high potential side of a double layer.
- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S002237780000115X
- Bibcode:
- 1983JPlPh..30..249R
- Keywords:
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- Auroras;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Negative Resistance Circuits;
- Plasma Conductivity;
- Plasma Diodes;
- Plasma Layers;
- Electron Distribution;
- Equilibrium Equations;
- High Energy Electrons;
- Plasma Oscillations;
- Plasma Physics