Characteristics of Photoionization Plasma Source
- 1 February 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 38 (2) , 251-252
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1771367
Abstract
A new plasma source is described. A collimated beam of photons of 6 μsec duration generates a plasma by single quantum photoionization of a rarefied gas. A uniform plasma column with sharply defined initial boundaries is produced remote from the container walls and in the absence of currents or fields. At 90 cm from the photon source, plasma densities of 1010 cm3 are produced in argon at a pressure of 5 μ.Keywords
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