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Title: Electrical single probe with an automatic positioner

Journal Article · · Review of Scientific Instruments
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1146568· OSTI ID:434508
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  1. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Laboratorio de Fisica de Plasmas, Apartado Postal 18-1027, Col Escandon, C.P. 11801, Mexico DF (Mexico)

An easy to assemble and inexpensive plasma diagnostic system is presented. An electrical single probe and its vacuum and electrical isolation arrangement, integrated to an automatic positioner device, has been constructed and tested in plasma environments. This system provides a more precise estimation of the probe electrode position than others previously proposed in the literature. To control the probe electrode position an electronic circuit based in a microcontroller device is used. This automatic positioner avoids the troubles related to a manual operation. {copyright} {ital 1996 American Institute of Physics.}

OSTI ID:
434508
Journal Information:
Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 67, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English