Motion of Gaseous Ions in Strong Electric Fields

1 January 1953

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Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Bell System Technical Journal

Vol. 32 (1) , 170-254
https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-7305.1953.tb01426.x

Abstract

This paper applies the Boltzmann method of gaseous kinetics to the problem of charged particles moving through a gas under the influence of a static, uniform electric field. The particle density is assumed to be vanishing low, and the ion-atom collis...