Debye length 德拜长度
(重定向自Debye sphere)
In plasmas and electrolytes the Debye length (also called Debye radius), named after the Dutch physicist and physical chemist Peter Debye, is the measure of a charge carrier's net electrostatic effect in solution, and how far those electrostatic effects persist. A Debye sphere is a volume whose radius is the Debye length, with each Debye length, charges are increasingly electrically screened. Every Debye‐length, the electric potential will decrease by 1/e. The notion of Debye length plays an important role in plasma physics, electrolytes and colloids (DLVO theory).