Düsseldorf 2007 – scientific programme

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P: Fachverband Plasmaphysik

P 22: Poster

P 22.36: Poster

Thursday, March 22, 2007, 16:30–18:30, Poster A

Current patterns in a plane discharge system with the high-ohmic cathode — •Shalva Amiranashvili, Svetlana Gurevich, and Hans-Georg Purwins — Institut für Angewandte Physik, Münster, Germany

We systematically consider current-voltage characteristic of the plane-parallel discharge cell in the Townsend mode of operation. Both effect of space charge and metastables are taken into account. The results are used to derive a reduced system of equations that governs the system and allows for explanation of the experimentally observed current patterns.