The book describes the current state-of-the-art of probe diagnostics, encompassing the latest achievements in electric probe science and technology. Beginning with an overview of plasma probe diagnostics, it subsequently goes beyond the single Langmuir probes which have received tremendous attention over the last few decades to cover recent developments. In particular, new probe theories and corresponding device implementations have been devised that allow reliable measurements in simple plasmas and more complex scenarios such as high-pressure plasmas, plasmas in strong magnetic fields, as well as anisotropic plasmas. It also covers new probe designs that have made it possible to reliably measure parameter fluctuations, particle fluxes, and energy in magnetized plasmas. Particular attention is paid to error analysis in probe measurements which can significantly increase their reliability and accuracy.
Chapter
1. Introduction.
Chapter
2. Plasma Basic Considerations.-
Chapter
3. Principles of Electric Probe Diagnostics.
Chapter
4. First and
second derivative techniques for the charge particle distribution
measurements.
Chapter
5. Measurements of the EDF at Low to Moderate-Pressure
Plasma.
Chapter
6. Probe Measurements in a Magnetized Plasma.
Chapter
7.
Diagnostics of Plasma with Anisotropic EDF.
Chapter
8. Probe IV-Trace
Processing for Simple Low-Pressure Plasma Diagnostics.
Chapter
9.
Measurements with Electric Probe Clusters and Special Probes.
Chapter
10.
Epilogue.
Vladimir I. Demidov has many years of extensive research experience in diverse areas of the field of plasma physics and chemistry, most notably in experimental studies of laboratory, industrial and thermonuclear plasma. He has paid special attention to the development of new and improved plasma diagnostic methods, including the development and improvement of electrical probes of various types and increasing the accuracy of their measurements. As well as publishing several dozen articles on probe measurements and the development of new types of probes, he has co-authored four invited review articles on electric probes in top journals, and he has also co-authored two previous monographs: "Probe Methods for the Low-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics" by V.I. Demidov, A.A. Kudryavtsev, and N.B. Kolokolov (in Russian, Energoatomizdat, Moscow, 1996), and "Introduction to the Kinetics of Glow Discharges", by Ch. Yuan, A.A. Kudryavtsev, and V.I. Demidov (Morgan & Claypool Publishers, IOP Concise Physics, San Rafael, CA, 2018).
Mikhail A. Malkov completed his postgraduate studies in Plasma Physics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He specializes in investigating the parameters of gas discharge plasmas, as well as in developing mathematical models and diagnostic methods for them. He is known for his work in the fields of probe diagnostics and gas discharge modeling. He is also the author of works concerning self-consistent models of fluorescent lamps and other applied aspects of gas discharge plasma physics.
