A method for the determination of vertical temperature profiles in the ICP utilizing Fermi-Dirac statistics to describe the relative population of excited neutral states of argon is presented. This method allows for calculation of temperature relative to a single position in the plasma, or absolute temperature profiles if the temperature is known at a single position.
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