An E ⃗×B ⃗ plasma is important for various applications including Hall thrusters and magnetic nozzle for long-lasting space propulsion. Such a cross field arrangement in inductively coupled plasma plays vital role in film deposition and etching that are the basic ingredients in semiconductor industries; though in these applications, only the electrons are magnetized which enhance the plasma production and hence, ultimately control the etching aspect ratio and film quality. In the present work, an E ⃗×B ⃗ plasma is considered where ionization takes place and finite temperature gradient also exists. Specifically, a theoretical model is developed for analysing the effect of magnetic field on the density gradient driven instability. The growth rate of the instability is evaluated as a function of plasma background density, scale length of density gradient, ionization frequency, charge on ions, ion temperature gradient, temperatures of plasma species and magnetic field. To generalize the situation, case of different masses of the ions is also reviewed by considering both the electrons and the ions to be magnetized. تفاصيل المقالة

The E*B plasma systems play an important role in the technologies like electric space propulsion and magnetized plasma sources used in plasma material interaction / surface processing. However, due to the gradient in plasma density, collisions and external fields such systems become prone to the instabilities and also dust particles are generated during the plasma processing. Hence, this article discusses the growth of gradient driven instability in a cross-field plasma, where both the ions and the electrons are magnetized and dust particles also exist. Using the fluid approach, we write basic equations and then derive an equation in terms of perturbed potential. The unperturbed part of this equation leads to the dispersion equation which is solved numerically for obtaining the growth rate of the instability. The normalized form of the growth rate is investigated in greater detail under the effect of dust density, dust mass, dust temperature, external magnetic field, ion temperature and ion temperature gradient. تفاصيل المقالة