Digital smoothing of the Langmuir probe I-V characteristic |
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Authors: | Magnus F Gudmundsson J T |
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Affiliation: | Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhaga 3, IS-107 Reykjavk, Iceland. |
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Abstract: | Electrostatic probes or Langmuir probes are the most common diagnostic tools in plasma discharges. The second derivative of the Langmuir probe I-V characteristic is proportional to the electron energy distribution function. Determining the second derivative accurately requires some method of noise suppression. We compare the Savitzky-Golay filter, the Gaussian filter, and polynomial fitting to the Blackman filter for digitally smoothing simulated and measured I-V characteristics. We find that the Blackman filter achieves the most smoothing with minimal distortion for noisy data. |
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