Determination of electron temperature in neon RF discharge by means of collisional-radiative model

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NAVRÁTIL Zdeněk SCHMIDT J BRZOBOHATÝ Oto ŠIMEK J TRUNEC David PEKÁREK S ŠMÍD Radek PRUKNER V LAZAR Lukáš

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceedings of ICPIG XXVIII
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Faculty of Science

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Field Plasma physics
Keywords neon RF discharge; optical emission spectroscopy; collisional-radiative model
Description A collisional-radiative model was used to determine the electron temperature in capacitively coupled RF (13.56 MHz) discharge in neon. Two discharge regimes at different pressures were investigated. The temperature was determined from the fit of the theoretical spectra to the spectra measured by optical emission spectroscopy. Three kinds of electron distribution function - Maxwellian, Bi-Maxwellian and Pseudo-Bi-Maxwellian - were considered. The results were compared with Particle-in-Cell/ Monte-Carlo simulation. The comparison of the fitted calculated and measured spectra shows a good agreement between the theory and experiment. The electron temperature, which was estimated from the fits, was approx. 6 eV in the sheath at neon pressure of 10 Pa and approx. 2 eV in the bulk plasma at neon pressure of 80 Pa.
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