Capacitive, inductive and helicon-wave modes of operation of a helicon plasma source

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2797-2804

  Ellingboe, A R ^a,b   Boswell, R W ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000651925     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.871713     Document Type: Article

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