Self‐cleaning Langmuir probe
作者:
W. E. Amatucci,
M. E. Koepke,
T. E. Sheridan,
M. J. Alport,
J. J. Carroll,
期刊:
Review of Scientific Instruments
(AIP Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 64,
issue 5
页码: 1253-1256
ISSN:0034-6748
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1063/1.1144074
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
A contamination‐free Langmuir probe of novel design is described. Surface contaminants, which lead to erroneous evaluation of plasma parameters by distortion of the probe’s current‐voltage characteristic, are removed by the indirect heating of the probe tip with separate heating elements running parallel to the probe wire in multibore alumina tubing. This configuration minimizes magnetic field perturbations, while maintaining the compact profile and construction ease of an unheated probe. The design and operating characteristics of such a probe are reported. Temperatures at the probe tip, as measured by a subminiature thermocouple, can exceed 500 °C. Experiments determining the effect of probe temperature,Tprobe, on the characteristic have been performed in aQ‐machine plasma (Ti≊Te≊0.2 eV). We find that forTprobe<250 °C, the measured electron temperature is up to several times too large, indicating the presence of a contamination layer. This contamination layer is removed forTprobe≥300 °C, and accurate electron temperatures are recovered.
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