Operation and Empirical Modeling of the Plasma Opening Switch

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 400-407

  Rix, William ^a   Parks, Donald ^a   Shannon, John ^a   Thompson, John ^a   Waisman, Eduardo ^a  

^a MAXWELL TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATORS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRON BEAMS;

ACE 1 ACCELERATOR; BLACKJACK 5 GENERATOR; PLASMA OPENING SWITCHES;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 0026140545     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.106838     Document Type: Article

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