Radio frequency heating of multi-ion species plasma
Abstract
Experimental results of ion heating by the use of an electrostatic ion cyclotron wave are presented. When a plasma is composed of several ion species, we can heat the desired one by selecting the frequency of the externally applied RF field. A theory of the RF plasma heating including the multiple ion species is also presented. A computation carried out for the appropriate experimental parameters agrees with the experimental results.
- Publication:
-
Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0032-1028/20/4/004
- Bibcode:
- 1978PlPh...20..333W
- Keywords:
-
- Cyclotron Frequency;
- Ion Cyclotron Radiation;
- Plasma Heating;
- Radio Frequencies;
- Field Strength;
- Helium Plasma;
- Plasma Density;
- Plasma Loss;
- Plasma Physics