Design and characterization of an RF plasma cleaner



Document title: Design and characterization of an RF plasma cleaner
Journal: Brazilian journal of physics
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000336924
ISSN: 0103-9733
Authors: 1
2
3
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Institutions: 1Ministerio da Ciencia e Tecnologia, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
2Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Fisica, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
3Universidade de Sao Paulo, Instituto de Fisica, Sao Paulo. Brasil
Year:
Season: Mar
Volumen: 40
Number: 1
Pages: 108-114
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, descriptivo
English abstract The design and characterization of an innovative device for plasma cleaning, based upon a non-conventional radio-frequency discharge, is described. The RF fields are produced by an antenna placed inside the metallic vacuum chamber. Theoretical models are described to calculate both the electro-magnetic field structure and the spatial impurity distribution, due to erosion of the antenna. The electron energy distribution function is determined with a standard RF-filtered electrostatic probe; it is found that the plasma is well described by a Druyvesteyn energy distribution function
Disciplines: Física y astronomía
Keyword: Teoría cinética y plasmas,
Radiofrecuencia,
Limpiador de plasma,
Sonda de Langmuir
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Kinetic theory and plasma,
Radiofrequency,
Plasma cleaner,
Langmuir probe
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