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Article Dans Une Revue Applied Physics Letters Année : 2014

A radio-frequency sheath model for complex waveforms

M.M. Turner
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Pascal Chabert

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Plasma sheaths driven by radio-frequency voltages occur in contexts ranging from plasma processing to magnetically confined fusion experiments. An analytical understanding of such sheaths is therefore important, both intrinsically and as an element in more elaborate theoretical structures. Radio-frequency sheaths are commonly excited by highly anharmonic waveforms, but no analytical model exists for this general case. We present a mathematically simple sheath model that is in good agreement with earlier models for single frequency excitation, yet can be solved for arbitrary excitation waveforms. As examples, we discuss dual-frequency and pulse-like waveforms. The model employs the ansatz that the time-averaged electron density is a constant fraction of the ion density. In the cases we discuss, the error introduced by this approximation is small, and in general it can be quantified through an internal consistency condition of the model. This simple and accurate model is likely to have wide application.

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hal-01549394 , version 1 (28-06-2017)

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M.M. Turner, Pascal Chabert. A radio-frequency sheath model for complex waveforms. Applied Physics Letters, 2014, 104 (16), pp.164102. ⟨10.1063/1.4872172⟩. ⟨hal-01549394⟩
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