Electron transport coefficients for NF3
Keywords:
electron transport parameters, first Townsend coefficient, rate of momentum transfer, mobility
Abstract
This paper reports the transport parameters of electrons in NF3 we calculated employing the Bolsig code and cross sections of elastic and inelastic collisions between electrons and gas molecules. We determined the first Townsend coefficient for direct ionization of NF3 molecules through electron impact (including the total one as well as partial contributions for each species of forming positive ions). We demonstrate that the appearance of positive NF2+ ions is the most probable ionization process. We found the dissociative attachment coefficient and the reduced electric field value for which the electron ionization and attachment rates are equal, i.e., the effective ionization coefficient vanishes. We also employed the elastic and inelastic collision rates to calculate the portion of energy lost by electrons under collisions with NF3 molecules, the average and characteristic electron energy, electron mobility and drift velocity. We also registered the RF breakdown curves for different inter-electrode gap and RF frequency values and employed the obtained turning point coordinates to determine the electron drift velocity in NF3 in satisfactory agreement with the data of calculations furnished by the Bolsig code.
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