Tandem Transport and Ambipolarity in the Resonant Plateau Regime
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 48 (9), 620-623
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.620
Abstract
A simple model for ion radial transport in the resonant plateau regime is derived. It is shown that the ion diffusion coefficient is insensitive to the radial electric field over a wide range of parameters. With use of this result, and the expression for the electron flux, a self-consistent picture of ambipolar tandem operation for quadrupole symmetric systems is obtained and compared with experiment.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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