Interferometry of flashboard and cable-gun plasma opening switches on hawk

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 189-195

  Weber, Bruce V ^a   Hinshelwood, David D ^a   Commisso, Robert J ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; IONIZATION OF GASES; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA GUNS; PLASMA SOURCES;

PLASMA OPENING SWITCHES (POS);

ELECTRIC SWITCHES;

EID: 0031122699     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.602490     Document Type: Article

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