Arc discharge at electrical contacts

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E79-B, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 439-446

  Sawa, Koichiro ^a   Chen, Zhuan Ke ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arc discharge; Electrical contact; EMI; Radio noise; Spectroscopic measurement

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; PALLADIUM; SILVER;

ARC DISCHARGE; GASEOUS PHASE ARC; METALLIC PHASE ARC; SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENT; SWITCHING CONTACTS; ULTRAVIOLET RAY IRRADIATION; VOLTAGE WAVEFORMS;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 0030124790     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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