Abstract
A self-consistent, two-dimensional hybrid fluid-particle model is used to study the effect of cathode geometry on the plasma produced in an argon glow discharge for conditions typically of the commercially available glow discharge mass spectrometer system (VG9000 spectrometer and Megacell source). For a given power supply voltage and gas pressure, we show that the spatial distribution of the plasma in the discharge volume is strongly dependent on the cathode geometry. The plasma created in a discharge with a pin cathode tends to form a ring around the cathode, while the plasma in a discharge with a larger diameter, disk cathode is centered on-axis between the cathode face and the anode. The ion current arriving at the entry plane of the mass spectrometer thus depends strongly on the cathode geometry. This suggests that analytical performance can be enhanced by optimization of the cathode (sample) geometry.
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