Electromagnetic properties of corrugated and smooth waveguides filled with radially inhomogeneous plasma

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 905-917

  Shkvarunets, Anatoly G ^a   Kobayashi, Satoru ^a   Weaver, James ^a   Carmel, Yuval ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA PROBES; PLASMA THEORY; PLASMAS;

CORRUGATED WAVEGUIDES; FREQUENCY UPSHIFTS; LANGMUIR PROBE; MICROWAVE RESONATOR; SLOW WAVE STRUCTURES; SMOOTH WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0030171364     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.533094     Document Type: Article

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