Sheath structure in plasma with two species of positive ions and secondary electrons

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/2/025202

Abstract The properties of a collisionless plasma sheath are investigated by using a fluid model in which two species of positive ions and secondary electrons are taken into account. It is shown that the positive ion speeds at the sheath edge increase with secondary electron emission (SEE) coefficient, and the sheath structure is affected by the interplay between the two species of positive ions and secondary electrons. The critical SEE coefficients and the sheath widths depend strongly on the positive ion charge number, mass and concentration in the cases with and without SEE. In addition, ion kinetic energy flux to the wall and the impact of positive ion species on secondary electron density at the sheath edge are also discussed.

Keywords: sheath two-ion-species plasma secondary electron emission

Received: 29 July 2015
Revised: 14 October 2015
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PACS:	52.40.Kh	(Plasma sheaths)
	52.30.Ex	(Two-fluid and multi-fluid plasmas)
	52.65.-y	(Plasma simulation)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11475220 and 11405208), the Program of Fusion Reactor Physics and Digital Tokamak with the CAS "One-Three-Five" Strategic Planning, the National ITER Program of China (Grant No. 2015GB101003), and the Higher Education Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province, China (Grant No. 2015KJ009).

Corresponding Authors: Nong Xiang
E-mail: xiangn@ipp.ac.cn

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Xiao-Yun Zhao(赵晓云), Nong Xiang(项农), Jing Ou(欧靖), De-Hui Li(李德徽), Bin-Bin Lin(林滨滨) Sheath structure in plasma with two species of positive ions and secondary electrons 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 025202

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