Angular Distribution of Ion Current Emerging From an Aperture Anode in a Vacuum Arc

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 713-716

  Cohen, Yuval ^a   Goldsmith, S ^a   Boxman, Raymond L ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CATHODES; COPPER AND ALLOYS; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

CONICAL RING ANODES; ION CURRENT DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRIC ARCS;

EID: 0024749340     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.41187     Document Type: Article

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