<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">L. Zeghichi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mokhnache Leila</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">M. Djebabra</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Effect of Applied Electric Field and Pressure on the Electron Avalanche Growth, e-ISSN 2415-1513</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on ELECTRONICS</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.wseas.us/journal/pdf/electronics/2016/a045817-098.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;span style=&quot;left:172.391px;top:405.67px;18.4px;serif;transform:scaleX(0.94453);&quot;&gt;The purpose of this paper is to mimic, using the Monte Carlo Simulation, the electron avalanch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;left:898.989px;top:405.67px;18.4px;serif;transform:scaleX(0.987259);&quot;&gt;e &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;left:84.9912px;top:426.664px;18.4px;serif;transform:scaleX(1.02532);&quot;&gt;growth by tracking individual paths of charged particles; the effect of space charge is included by solving the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;left:84.9912px;top:447.861px;18.4px;serif;transform:scaleX(1.00461);&quot;&gt;Poisson equation. An electronic avalanche is produced, when an electric field, sufficiently intense, is applied to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;left:84.9912px;top:468.855px;18.4px;serif;transform:scaleX(0.936046);&quot;&gt;a gas. At some stage of for&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;left:294.99px;top:468.855px;18.4px;serif;transform:scaleX(0.953815);&quot;&gt;mation of free electrons and ions; the electronic avalanche becomes a conductor &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;left:84.9912px;top:489.85px;18.4px;serif;transform:scaleX(0.956926);&quot;&gt;channel, and then self sustainment of the discharge. The simulation is carried out in O2 gas for two different &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;left:84.9912px;top:511.046px;18.4px;serif;transform:scaleX(0.979553);&quot;&gt;pressures, under the effect of uniform electrical fields. The streamer breakdown criterion for the different &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;left:84.9912px;top:532.041px;18.4px;serif;transform:scaleX(0.996556);&quot;&gt;applied uniform fields is examined. &lt;/span&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>