Reply to comment on 'Correlating metastable-atom density, reduced electric field, and electron energy distribution in the post-transient stage of a 1 Torr argon discharge' 2015 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 24 034009

摘要

The attention to a detailed analysis by Sadeghi [1] of our paper [2], using Weatherford and Barnat [3] for reference information is appreciated and motivates us to clarify points in our paper referred to in the Comment [1]. In this Reply, we respond to the two remarks by Sadeghi [1] claiming to render as unjustified our original conclusion based on validity of the 420.1/419.8 nm emission intensity ratio method for the estimate of argon metastable density, and clear up other possible misinterpretations of the data presented in our paper [2].