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Studies of multiple ionization in the RF spark and vacuum vibrator arc ion sources

Venkatasubramanian, VS and Swaminathan, S and Rajagopalan, PT (1977) Studies of multiple ionization in the RF spark and vacuum vibrator arc ion sources. In: International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics, 24 (2). pp. 207-217.

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Abstract

Relative abundance distributions of multiply-charged ionic species have been measured for the RF spark and vacuum vibrator are ion sources, for a number of elements. An attempt has been made to explain the observed charge state distribution on the basis of models for the arc and spark plasma. The difficulties in the way of explaining the observed charge state distributions, using the LTE model with Saha distribution as well as the corona model, are pointed out. The distribution can be explained by a diffusion-dominated plasma model with known or calculated values for ionization cross-sections, the single impact model being suitable for the RF spark and the multiple impact model for the vibrator arc.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Additional Information: Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Department/Centre: Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited: 20 Jan 2010 10:22
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2010 05:50
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/24447

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