INVESTIGATIONS OF THE DECAYING PLASMA
OF ELECTRONEGATIVE GASES
S. A. Gutsev

UDC 537

The influence of different processes on the decay of a 
low-pressure plasma containing negative ions is discussed. Experimental 
results and calculations modeling the decay of a multicomponent plasma 
are given. The problems of creation of ion-ion sources are considered.

St. Petersburg Scientific-Research Institute of Physics at the State University, 
St. Petersburg, Russia; email: box@gca.belpak.brest.by. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 165-170, 
March-April, 2002. Original article submitted July 25, 2000; 
revision submitted March 3, 2001.

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