Heating Mechanism of Self-Interaction of Potential Surface Waves in a Warm Nonisothermal Plasma Bounded by Metal

The influence of electrons heating in the high-frequency potential surface wave (SW) field on dispersion properties of the considered SW is studied in this paper. High-frequency SW propagate at the interface between a warm nonisothermal plasma and a metal. The nonlinear dispersion relation for the SW is derived and investigated. The obtained results are valid in both semiconductor and gaseous plasmas in a weak heating approximation.