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Admittance Probe Method of Measuring Time Resolved Plasma Electron Temperatures

Julien Clinton Sprott
- 01 Jan 1968 - 
- Vol. 39, Iss: 10, pp 1569-1570
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In this article, it was shown that the plasma electron temperature in electron volts is given by the product of the ion saturation current and the probe-to-plasma resistance at the floating potential.
Abstract
It is shown that the plasma electron temperature in electron volts is given by the product of the ion saturation current and the probe‐to‐plasma resistance at the floating potential. An ac capacitance bridge circuit is described which will measure this resistance with a response time that approaches the ion transit time across the sheath. The method is demonstrated by a measurement of electron temperature in the Wisconsin toroidal octupole.

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Low-frequency impedance characteristics of a langmuir probe in a plasma internal memorandum

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Mirror Langmuir probe: a technique for real-time measurement of magnetized plasma conditions using a single Langmuir electrode.

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Diffusion Coefficient Scaling in the Wisconsin Levitated Octupole.

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Transition from classical to vortex diffusion in the Wisconsin levitated octupole

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A Floating Double Probe Method for Measurements in Gas Discharges

TL;DR: In this article, a double probe system is used to measure the plasma potential of a pair of probes joined by a variable potential source in varying or decaying plasmas, where the double probes are joined by the same potential source.

Low-frequency impedance characteristics of a langmuir probe in a plasma internal memorandum

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the low frequency impedance of the Langmuir probe in plasma to obtain electron density and temperature in order to obtain the electron density, temperature, and electron density.
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Low‐Frequency Impedance Characteristics of a Langmuir Probe in a Plasma

TL;DR: Plasma electron density and temperature from measurement of LF impedance of Langmuir probe, noting ionospheric probing as discussed by the authors. But this measurement was performed in the presence of an ionosphere.
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