Solid armature performance with resistive rails

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 798-803

  Dreizin, Yuri A ^a  

^a DYUAR Inc ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0000416160     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.195678     Document Type: Article

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