Article

Plasma Investigations
1980. V. 18. № 1. P. 36–41
Shapiro G.I.
Stability of a glow discharge plasma in a variable electric field
Annotation
The effects are studied of a variable (rotating, high-frequency, etc.) electric field on the development of ionization-vibrational instability, which is one of the possible causes for the appearance of filaments in a glow discharge in molecule gases. It is shown that in a variable field there are two effective spatial mechanisms for suppressing instability. The first is associated with three-dimensional rotations of the field vector, the second is based on large changes of the electron temperature in an electric field of varying amplitude.
Article reference:
Shapiro G.I. Stability of a glow discharge plasma in a variable electric field, High Temp., 1980. V. 18. № 1. P. 36