Sampling and retarding potential difference analysis of ion swarm velocity distributions: a computer simulation study

Various types of velocity distribution functions occurring in steady-state ion swarm experiments with absorbing boundaries have been identified, and their behavior investigated by computer simulation, in a Li+-He case study. From this study, it is apparent that distribution functions and velocity moments obtained from RPD measurements have very little connection with the corresponding quantities occurring in boundary-free transport.

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