Double-layer-relevant laboratory results
Abstract
Double-layer floating potential fluctuations have been investigated and progress has been made in developing a novel technique for measuring electron energy distribution functions in low-density double layers. A new inductive plasma source has been developed. With this source, magnetized double layers can be routinely produced. These magnetized double layers are often weak stair-step double layers that are oblique to the magnetic field. Laboratory data of emitting probe characteristics taken in tenuous plasmas have helped to quantify space-charge-enhanced plasma gradient induced error in double-layer electric field measurements made by satellite double probes. Also, magnetic sheaths have been experimentally studied and compared with theory.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
- Pub Date:
- December 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1109/27.199499
- Bibcode:
- 1992ITPS...20..601D
- Keywords:
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- Auroral Zones;
- Plasma Electrodes;
- Plasma Layers;
- Plasma Potentials;
- Electron Plasma;
- Plasma Sheaths;
- Stellar Magnetic Fields;
- Plasma Physics