PIC/MCC Simulation of Electron and Ion Currents to Spherical Langmuir Probe

• Authors: TRUNEC David; BONAVENTURA Zdeněk; ZIKÁN Petr; JÁNSKÝ Jaroslav
• Year of publication: 2015
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Contributions to Plasma Physics
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Web: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1521-3986
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ctpp.201400046
• Field: Plasma physics
• Keywords: PIC/MCC simulation; Langmuir probe; probe currents
• Description: The Particle In Cell/Monte Carlo Collisions (PIC/MCC) simulation was used for the calculation of electron and ion currents to a spherical Langmuir (electrostatic) probe. This simulation took into account the collisions of collected charged particles with neutral gas particles around the probe and it can calculate the probe currents at higher neutral gas pressures.

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