INTRODUCTION: The Langmuir probe is a diagnostic device used to determine several basic properties of a plasma, such as temperature and density. A plasma is a state of matter which contains enough free (not bound to an atom) charged particles (electrons and ions) so that its dynamical behavior is dominated by electromagnetic forces. The subject of plasma physics is concerned mainly with ionized...

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I give several simple examples of model Langmuir probe current-voltage I-V characteristics that help students learn how to interpret real I-V characteristics obtained in a plasma. Students can also create their own Langmuir probe I-V characteristics using a program with the plasma density, plasma potential, electron temperature, ion temperature, and probe area as input parameters. Some examples...

an organophilic clay-based adsorbent was prepared by incorporating a cationic surfactant,hexadecyltrimethylammonium (hdtma) at different levels of cec in tunisian smectite-illite clay. thepresence of the hdtma surfactant enhanced the adsorption ability of the clays toward plyphenolic compounds from aqueous systems. adsorption experiments were carried out using a batch equilibration technique to...

Calixarenes are promising compounds to be used as ionophores and for molecular recognition. Their ability to form Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films is of great interest in order to obtain small sensor devices which incorporate an active nanometric film. The p-tert-butylcalix[7]arene ethyl ester compound has been synthesised and its ability to form Langmuir and LB films has been shown. T...

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics computer simulations are applied to investigate fundamental processes induced by an impact of keV C60 projectile at an organic overlayer composed of long, well-organized linear molecules. The energy transfer pathways, sputtering yields, and the damage induced in the irradiated system, represented by Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) multilayers composed of molecules of ba...

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cisely the plane grating formula. It will be noted that, with the exception of two, all of the points fall to the right of the regions of "anomalous dispersion," and that none of them falls in this region. It is due to this circumstance presumably that the displacements of the electron diffraction beams from their x-ray analogues display no marked abnormalities. It will be noted also that altho...