Modeling and Applications of Silent Discharge Plasmas

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 309-323

  Eliasson, Baldur ^a   Kogelschatz, Ulrich ^a  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; OZONE--PRODUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

PLASMA CHEMISTRY;

PLASMAS;

EID: 0026141972     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.106829     Document Type: Article

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