Absorption of an Electron by a Dielectric Wall

作者:Bronold F X*; Fehske H
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2015, 115(22): 225001.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.225001

摘要

We introduce a method for calculating the probability with which a low-energy electron hitting the wall of a bounded plasma gets stuck in it and apply the method to a dielectric wall with positive electron affinity smaller than the band gap using MgO as an example. In accordance with electron beam scattering data we obtain energy-dependent sticking probabilities significantly less than unity and question thereby for electrons the perfect absorber assumption used in plasma modeling.

  • 出版日期2015-11-24