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Abnormal heating of low-energy electrons in low-pressure capacitively coupled discharges

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posted on 2008-02-25, 11:58 authored by G.Y. Park, S.J. You, Felipe Iza, Jae Koo Lee
In low-pressure capacitively coupled plasmas, high-energy electrons are collisionlessly heated by large rf fields in the sheaths while low-energy electrons are confined in the bulk plasma by the ambipolar potential. Low-energy electrons are typically inefficiently heated due to their low collisionality and the weak rf electric field present in the bulk. It is shown, however, that as a result of the nonlinear interaction between the electron motion and the weak rf field present in the bulk, low-energy electrons can be efficiently heated. Electrons in the bulk that bounce inside the electrostatic potential well with a frequency equal to the rf excitation frequency are efficiently heated by the coherent interaction with the rf field. This resonant collisionless heating can be very efficient and manifest itself as a plateau in the electron energy probability function.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Citation

PARK., G.Y. ... et al, 2007. Abnormal heating of low-energy electrons in low-pressure capacitively coupled discharges. Physical review letters, 98 (8), 085003

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© The American Physical Society

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2007

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This article is Restricted Access. It was published in the journal, Physical review letters [© The American Physical Society] and is available at: http://prl.aps.org/ or http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.085003

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0031-9007

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  • en

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