Electric-Field Penetration into a Plasma with a Fractionally Accommodating Boundary
- 1 June 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 9 (6) , 868-874
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1664653
Abstract
Landau's field penetration study is extended to a plasma with a boundary that reflects a fraction σ of the incident electrons specularly and the remainder diffusely. Exact solutions for specular and diffuse reflection, and series solutions for fractional accommodation are obtained. At great depths in the plasma the field is found to exhibit negligible σ dependence for ω near ωp and weak dependence through a factor (1 + σ) at other frequencies.Keywords
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