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On the negative resistance of double layers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

M. A. Raadu  and
M. B. Silevitch
M. A. Raadu
Affiliation:
Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Plasma Physics, S-100 44 Stockholm 70, Sweden
M. B. Silevitch
Affiliation:
Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Plasma Physics, S-100 44 Stockholm 70, Sweden
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Abstract

The negative resistance of double layers has been invoked to explain instability in diode currents, and the flickering aurora phenomenon. In this paper the theory of the negative resistance is extended by a more detailed account of the constraints that are imposed on the electron distributions in the double layer. Attention is concentrated on the energetic trapped electrons which originate at the high potential side of a double layer.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , October 1983 , pp. 249 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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