A contribution to the assessment of the influence of collisions on the measurements with Langmuir probes in the thick sheath working regime

• DOI: 10.1007/bf01676361
• Publication Date: 2005-05-11T10:35:42Z
• Authors: S. Klagge; M. Tichý
• Keywords: Langmuir Probe; Electron temperature

In the present work we investigate theoretically and experimentally the influence of elastic collisions in a probe sheath on a cylindrical Langmuir probe. The analysed probe working regime covers conditions under which the following probe characteristic parameters are comparable: the probe radius, the Debye length and both the ion and electron mean free paths.