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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Kinetic simulation of the sheath dynamics in the intermediate radio frequency regime
Plasma Science and Technology, Volume 22, No. 5, Article 055013, Year 2013
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The dynamics of temporally modulated plasma boundary sheaths is studied in the intermediate radio frequency regime where the applied radio frequency and the ion plasma frequency (or the reciprocal of the ion transit time) are comparable. Two fully kinetic simulation algorithms are employed and their results are compared. The first is a realization of the well-known particle-in-cell technique with Monte Carlo collisions and simulates the entire discharge, a planar radio frequency capacitively coupled plasma with an additional ionization source. The second code is based on the recently published scheme Ensemble-in-Spacetime (EST); it resolves only the sheath and requires the time-resolved voltage across and the ion flux into the sheath as input. Ion inertia causes a temporal asymmetry (hysteresis) of the charge-voltage relation; other ion transit time effects are also found. The two algorithms are in good agreement, both with respect to the spatial and temporal dynamics of the sheath and with respect to the ion energy distributions at the electrodes. It is concluded that the EST scheme may serve as an efficient post-processor for fluid or global simulations and for measurements: it can rapidly and accurately calculate ion distribution functions even when no genuine kinetic information is available. © 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Shihab, Mohammed
Germany, Bochum
Ruhr-universitat Bochum
Egypt, Tanta
Faculty of Science
Elgendy, Abdelfattah T.
Germany, Bochum
Ruhr-universitat Bochum
Korolov, I.
Hungary, Budapest
Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia
Derzsi, A.
Hungary, Budapest
Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia
Schulze, J.
Germany, Bochum
Ruhr-universitat Bochum
Eremin, D.
Germany, Bochum
Ruhr-universitat Bochum
Mussenbrock, Thomas
Germany, Bochum
Ruhr-universitat Bochum
Donkó, Z.
Hungary, Budapest
Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia
Brinkmann, R. P.
Germany, Bochum
Ruhr-universitat Bochum
Statistics
Citations: 11
Authors: 9
Affiliations: 3
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10.1088/0963-0252/22/5/055013