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A simplified model of a cathode sheath sustained by electron avalanches is presented. The model is used to calculate the pulsed mode of a negative corona in nitrogen in order to establish the physical picture of the processes occurring in a pulsed corona. The most important point is that, in the pulsed mode, both the averaged and dynamic current-voltage characteristics of a glow cathode sheath are found to have a negative slope. Lowering the degree to which the glow cathode sheath is subnormal (by sharply reducing the sheath area) or switching on additional ionization mechanisms (e.g., stepwise ionization) that force the cathode sheath to evolve into a prearc spot causes the negative slopes of the averaged and dynamic current-voltage characteristics of the sheath to become more gradual and even positive, thereby stabilizing the discharge current.
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Translated from Fizika Plazmy, Vol. 27, No. 6, 2001, pp. 563–572.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2001 by Akishev, Grushin, Karal'nk, Trushkin.
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Akishev, Y.S., Grushin, M.E., Karal'nik, V.B. et al. Pulsed mode of a negative corona in nitrogen: II. Numerical calculations. Plasma Phys. Rep. 27, 532–541 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1378131
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