OBSERVATION OF SMALL ELECTRON-TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS IN A NITROGEN PLASMA BY LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE

Authors
FUKUCHI T WUERKER RF WONG AY
Citation
T. Fukuchi et al., OBSERVATION OF SMALL ELECTRON-TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS IN A NITROGEN PLASMA BY LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE, Journal of applied physics, 75(11), 1994, pp. 7237-7239
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Journal of applied physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00218979
Volume
75
Issue
11
Year of publication
1994
Pages
7237 - 7239
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-8979(1994)75:11<7237:OOSEVI>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Variations in electron temperature in a pulsed radio-frequency nitroge n plasma have been investigated with a floating double-Langmuir probe and by laser-induced fluorescence. Observations suggest that the N2(B 3PI(g)) level is populated by excitation from the metastable N2(A 3SIG MA(u)+) level by low-energy electrons.