A Model For a Uniform Steady-State Vacuum Arc With a Hot Anode

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 661-665

  Boxman, Raymond L ^a   Goldsmith, S ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; COPPER AND ALLOYS; IONIZATION; PLASMAS;

CURRENT DENSITIES; ELECTRON-ION COLLISIONS; ELECTRON-NEUTRAL COLLISIONS;

ELECTRIC ARCS;

EID: 0024751355     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.41177     Document Type: Article

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