A technique to reduce plasma armature formation voltage

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 318-322

  Jamison, Keith A ^a   Littrell, Donald M ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA DEVICES;

PLASMA ARMATURES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 0025889452     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.101048     Document Type: Article

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