Potentials in a plasma over a biased pinhole
Abstract
The NASCAP/LEO code is used to simulate measurements taken at Jet Propulsion Laboratory of potentials near a simulated pinhole. The insulator near the high-voltage pinhole obeys an electric field boundary condition resulting from secondary electron hopping conductivity. The code predictions are in good agreement with the measurements.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Pub Date:
- December 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1109/TNS.1983.4333128
- Bibcode:
- 1983ITNS...30.4307M
- Keywords:
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- Computerized Simulation;
- Electrical Measurement;
- High Voltages;
- Pinholes;
- Plasma Potentials;
- Coulomb Potential;
- Electron Irradiation;
- Error Analysis;
- Insulators;
- Plasma Diagnostics;
- Spacecraft Charging;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering