Behavior of fully ionized seed plasma excited by microwave

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-14

  Murakami, Tomoyuki ^a   Suekane, Tetsuya ^a   Okuno, Yoshihiro ^a   Kabashima, Shigeharu ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Full seed ionization; Microwave plasma

Indexed keywords

ARGON; ATOMS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CESIUM; ELECTRONS; HELIUM; IONIZATION; MICROWAVES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CESIUM METAL IONIZATION; FULL SEED IONIZATION; MOLE FRACTION;

PLASMAS;

EID: 0031069050     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.557480     Document Type: Article

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