Comparison of Langmuir Probe and Spectrometric Electron Temperature Measurements
- 1 September 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 37 (10) , 3821-3826
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1707933
Abstract
Langmuir probes, because of their convenience and their ability to give time‐resolved measurements, are often used for temperature measurements in plasmas. Since probe results are subject to suspicion, we compare probe and spectrometric electron temperature measurements in a particular low‐temperature plasma in which this is possible. We find probe temperatures to be significantly higher over an electron temperature range (measured spectrometrically) of at least 410° to 820°K.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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