Is oxygen a detachment-dominated gas or not?
- 31 October 2000
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 33 (22) , 3009
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/33/22/21
Abstract
The apparent contradiction between treatments of discharges in oxygen at low pressures is highlighted, and the question asked why in radio-frequency generated plasmas it is permissible to ignore detachment due to collisions between metastables and negative oxygen ions whereas in dc discharges the consensus is that this process is dominant.Keywords
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