A CAPACITIVE PROBE ARRAY FOR MEASUREMENTS OF IONIZATION GROWTH

Authors
CHOI P FAVRE M
Citation
P. Choi et M. Favre, A CAPACITIVE PROBE ARRAY FOR MEASUREMENTS OF IONIZATION GROWTH, Review of scientific instruments, 65(7), 1994, pp. 2281-2283
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied","Instument & Instrumentation
Journal title
Review of scientific instruments → ACNP
ISSN journal
00346748
Volume
65
Issue
7
Year of publication
1994
Pages
2281 - 2283
Database
ISI
SICI code
0034-6748(1994)65:7<2281:ACPAFM>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
The design and construction of a novel capacitive probe array to direc tly measure the ionization growth in high-voltage discharges is presen ted. By optimizing the design geometry, the probe output is made to be dependent only on the variation of charge development or potential ch anges at the vicinity of the probe in the interelectrode space. A set of these probes was used in an experiment to allow the time and space development of a virtual anode to be directly observed.