Abstract
A directional velocity analyzer has been developed for measuring electron distribution functions in plasmas. It contains a collimating aperture which selects particles from a narrow cone in velocity space and a retarding potential analyzer. The distribution function f(v, θ, φ) is obtained from a large number of analyzer traces taken at different angles θ, φ. In addition, the small analyzer can be moved in space and the measurements are time resolved so as to obtain the complete phase space information f (v, r, t). The large data flow of this seven-variable function is processed with a high-speed digital data-acquisition system. The new electron velocity analyzer is applicable over a wide parameter range in electron energies and densities. Various cases of anisotropic distributions such as beams, shells, tails, and drifts have been successfully investigated.
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