Electric field emission of electrons from negatively charged spherical particles in a dusty plasma in the regime of nonlinear screening

Abstract

This note presents a discussion of the electric field emission from negatively charged spherical particles in a dusty plasma in the regime of nonlinear screening. Using the appropriate representation of the nonlinear screening by Gurevich and the matrix method, the tunneling probability of an electron through the potential energy barrier around the particle has been evaluated as a function of its radial energy; corresponding values of the current density have also been obtained. A discussion of numerical results, thus obtained concludes the presentation.