<正> Continuous emission spectrum measurement is applied for the inconvenient diagnosticsof low-temperature collisional plasmas.According to the physical mechanism of continuousemission,a simplified model is presented to analyze the spectrum in low temperature plasma.Thevalidity of this model is discussed in a wide range of discharge parameters,including electron temperatureand ionization degree.Through the simplified model,the continuous emission spectrumin a coUisional argon internal inductively coupled plasma is experimentally measured to determinethe electron temperature distribution for different gas pressures and radio-frequency powers.Theinverse Abel transform is also applied for a better spatially resoluted results.Meanwhile,theresult of the continuous emission spectrum measurement is compared to that of the electrostaticdouble probes,which indicates the effectiveness of this method.
Continuous emission spectrum measurement is applied for the inconvenient diagnos- tics of low-temperature collisional plasmas. According to the physical mechanism of continuous emission, a simplified model is presented to analyze the spectrum in low temperature plasma. The validity of this model is discussed in a wide range of discharge parameters, including electron tem- perature and ionization degree. Through the simplified model, the continuous emission spectrum in a collisional argon internal inductively coupled plasma is experimentally measured to determine the electron temperature distribution for different gas pressures and radio-frequency powers. The inverse Abel transform is also applied for a better spatially resoluted results. Meanwhile, the result of the continuous emission spectrum measurement is compared to that of the electrostatic double probes, which indicates the effectiveness of this method.