Abstract
The characteristics of presheaths near an electrically floating plate in weakly collisional argon multidipole plasmas are investigated with a combination of data from laser induced fluorescence using a diode laser, Mach probes, emissive probes, and Langmuir probes. It is shown that ion–neutral collisions result in an increase in ion temperature from approximately room temperature in the bulk plasma to 0.13 eV, 0.5 cm from the plate, the location of the closest measurement. In addition, at that point, the presheath plasma potential drop is greater than Te/2, and the drift velocity is equal to 0.5 cs, where cs is the ion sound velocity.
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