Low-frequency sheath instability in a non-Maxwellian plasma with energetic ions.
Spontaneous low-frequency oscillations have been observed in the circuit of a positively biased electrode when the ambient nonuniform plasma is irradiated by a microwave pulse of short duration, which is approximately equal to the ion-plasma period. The instability with its characteristic frequency below the ion-plasma frequency is driven by an accelerated ion component interacting with the sheath of the electrode. A qualitative model of the instability is suggested.
Starodubtsev
Mikhail
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Energy and Environmental Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, 7-1-2 Yoto, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-8585, Japan. mstar@appl.sci-nnov.ru
Kamal-Al-Hassan
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Ito
Hiroaki
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Yugami
Noboru
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Nishida
Yasushi
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