Events Associated with Zero Current Passage During the Rapid Commutation of a Vacuum Arc

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1983, Pages 181-188

  Childs, Susan E ^a   Greenwood, Allan N ^b   Sullivan, J S ^b  

^a Central Electricity Research Laboratories   (United Kingdom)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS - CURRENT; PLASMAS;

ELECTRIC ARCS;

EID: 0020815344     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.1983.4316248     Document Type: Article

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