{"title":"Determination of electron temperature and electron density in laboratory plasmas using the double probe method","authors":"M. Gasseller, A. Gholap","doi":"10.4314/AJESMS.V1I1.38572","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The electron temperatures and electron densities of air and argon have been measured at various pds (pressure times distance). The electron temperatures have been computed using the Johnson-Malter double-probe method. The electron densities have been computed using the total positive ion current and the cross-sectional area of the probes. It is seen that the electron temperature increases from 5.8 × 10 2 o K to 7.83 × 10 4 o K as the pd is reduced from 130mm Hg × mm to 60 mm Hg × mm for argon. The electron densities increases from 2.8 × 10 11 /cm 3 to 3.2 × 10 11 /cm 3 for the same variation of pds. For air the electron temperature increases from 3.6 × 10 4 o K to 7.80 × 10 4 o K as the pd is reduced from 130 mm Hg × mm to 60 mm Hg × mm. The electron density increases from 4.4 × 10 11 /cm 3 to 6.3 × 10 11 /cm 3 for the same variation of pd. African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences Vol. 1, 2001: 1-11","PeriodicalId":210929,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/AJESMS.V1I1.38572","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The electron temperatures and electron densities of air and argon have been measured at various pds (pressure times distance). The electron temperatures have been computed using the Johnson-Malter double-probe method. The electron densities have been computed using the total positive ion current and the cross-sectional area of the probes. It is seen that the electron temperature increases from 5.8 × 10 2 o K to 7.83 × 10 4 o K as the pd is reduced from 130mm Hg × mm to 60 mm Hg × mm for argon. The electron densities increases from 2.8 × 10 11 /cm 3 to 3.2 × 10 11 /cm 3 for the same variation of pds. For air the electron temperature increases from 3.6 × 10 4 o K to 7.80 × 10 4 o K as the pd is reduced from 130 mm Hg × mm to 60 mm Hg × mm. The electron density increases from 4.4 × 10 11 /cm 3 to 6.3 × 10 11 /cm 3 for the same variation of pd. African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences Vol. 1, 2001: 1-11