Abstract
Townsend breakdown mechanism for direct current discharge in argon gas by considering the effects of the non-uniformity of electric field, the loss of electrons due to radial diffusion, and the applied axial magnetic field has been discussed and an analytical expression has been derived for the breakdown voltage. It was Shown that the non-uniformity of electric field, between two parallel disc electrodes with radius R and separation of d, significantly affects the electron multiplication for d≥2.7R and that effect was disappeared for the gas pressure higher than 0.35 Torr. The loss coefficient δ was used to quantify the effects of the electron radial diffusion and axial magnetic field and the PIC-MCC numerical simulations were used to determine it. The results show that increasing the gap size above the electrode radius leads to dramatic increase of the δ coefficient while applying an axial magnetic field can effectively decrease it.
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