Extracted H− ion current enhancement due to caesium seeding at different plasma grid bias

Abstract

This paper discusses the possibility that there is an enhancement of volume production due to gettering of atomic hydrogen by the caesium deposited on the walls, which reduces the negative ion destruction by associative and non-associative detachment. Such an enhancement would take place for all plasma grid bias voltages. Furthermore at plasma grid bias voltages higher than the plasma potential there is flow of the negative ions from the bulk plasma.