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We have developed and demonstrated an optical technique for measuring the sputtering rate of a molybdenum surface immersed in a xenon plasma. This approach, which may be useful in real-time wear diagnostics for ion thrusters, relies on laser-induced fluorescence to determine the density of sputtered molybdenum atoms.
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Gaeta et al. (1992) studied this question.
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