 Charged sheet between grounded parallel plates

Place an infinite sheet of surface charge density $\sigma$ at $z=0$ between grounded conducting planes $z=\pm d/2$, in vacuum. Reflection symmetry and Gauss's law give $E_z=\sigma \mathrm{sgn}(z)/(2{\epsilon }_0)$ in the two gaps. Integrating the electric field with zero electric potential at the conductors gives $V(z)=\sigma (d/2-|z|)/(2{\epsilon }_0)$. Each facing conducting surface carries induced surface charge density $-\sigma /2$. For $\sigma >0$, an electron released from rest at a plate reaches the sheet with kinetic energy $e\sigma d/(4{\epsilon }_0)$; its nonrelativistic speed follows from $m_e{v}^2/2$.