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Highly Ionised Carbon in Capillary Discharge Plasma
Author(s) -
Föurster A.,
Beule D.,
Conrads H.,
Ebeling W.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.2150380510
Subject(s) - plasma , materials science , polyethylene , carbon fibers , capillary action , ion , atomic physics , plasma parameters , electron temperature , physics , composite material , nuclear physics , composite number , quantum mechanics
Spectroscopic data indicate that fully ionised carbon ions occur in capillary discharge experiment using a polyethylene tube. On the basis of the simultaneously obtained data for electron density and temperature we calculate the charge‐state distribution. The theoretical model takes into account several dense plasma effects and yields the detailed composition of the polyethylene plasma over time. For typical densities of the discharge plasma a temperature of ≥ 30eV/ k B is shown to be sufficient to generate a substantial amount of fully ionised carbon.