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View SchemaPlasma production by helicon waves with single mode number in low magnetic fields
| Authors | Genta Sato, Wataru Oohara, Rikizo Hatakeyama |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0410164 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0410164 |
Abstract
Radio-frequency discharges are performed in low magnetic fields (0-10 mT) using three types of helicon-wave exciting antennas with the azimuthal mode number of $|m|$ = 1. The most pronounced peak of plasma density is generated in the case of phased helical antenna at only a few mT, where the helicon wave with $|m| = 1$ is purely excited and propagates. An analysis based on the dispersion relation well explains the density-peak phenomenon in terms of the correspondence between the antenna one-wavelength and the helicon wavelength. The $m=+1$ helicon wave propagates even in high magnetic fields where the density peaks are not observed, but the $m=-1$ helicon wave disappers. It is expected theoretically that the $m=-1$ helicon wave shows cutoff behavior in a low density region, [M. Kramer, Phys. Plasmas 6, 1052 (1999)], and the cutoff of $m=-1$ helicon wave experimentally observed coincides with the calculated one.
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"abstract": "Radio-frequency discharges are performed in low magnetic fields (0-10 mT)\nusing three types of helicon-wave exciting antennas with the azimuthal mode\nnumber of $|m|$ = 1. The most pronounced peak of plasma density is generated in\nthe case of phased helical antenna at only a few mT, where the helicon wave\nwith $|m| = 1$ is purely excited and propagates. An analysis based on the\ndispersion relation well explains the density-peak phenomenon in terms of the\ncorrespondence between the antenna one-wavelength and the helicon wavelength.\nThe $m=+1$ helicon wave propagates even in high magnetic fields where the\ndensity peaks are not observed, but the $m=-1$ helicon wave disappers. It is\nexpected theoretically that the $m=-1$ helicon wave shows cutoff behavior in a\nlow density region, [M. Kramer, Phys. Plasmas 6, 1052 (1999)], and the cutoff\nof $m=-1$ helicon wave experimentally observed coincides with the calculated\none.",
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"Genta Sato",
"Wataru Oohara",
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"title": "Plasma production by helicon waves with single mode number in low magnetic fields",
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