Marginal Stability and Critical Thickness of Strong Double Layers

摘要

Previous investigations of the stability, in particular the critical thickness for marginal stability, of an electron configuration of double layer type are extended in order to include effects of (i) unequal plasma densities in the field-free regions, and (ii) finite values of the parameter e delta phi/kTsub(e). The results obtained are compared to the corresponding quantities in various experiments, and a striking coincidence is found. (Atomindex citation 13:662921)