MoDulation Instability in Pulsed Surface-Wave Sustained Discharges

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 415-422

  Grozev, Dimitar ^a   Kirov, Krassimir ^a   Makasheva, Kremena ^a   Shivarova, Antonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Ionization nonlinearity; Modulation instability; Pulsed microwave discharges; Solitary waves; Surface wave sustained discharges

Indexed keywords

PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMAS; STABILITY; SURFACE DISCHARGES;

IONIZATION NONLINEARITY; MODULATION INSTABILITY; PULSED SURFACE WAVE SUSTAINED DISCHARGES; SOLITARY WAVES;

SURFACE WAVES;

EID: 0031164494     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.597254     Document Type: Article

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