A new technique to determine the edge of an electron-free sheath is presented. The technique takes advantage of the variation of the inflection point of the emissive probe characteristic with electron emission. The edge of the electron-free sheath is identified as the position where the inflection point changes from increasing with emission to decreasing with emission.
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