Discharge characteristics of the spherical inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) device

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 733-739

  Miley, George H ^a,c   Gu, Yibin ^a,c   Demora, John M ^a,b   Stubbers, Robert A ^a,b,c   Hochberg, Timothy A ^a,b,c   Nadler, Jon H ^a,b,c   Anderl, Robert A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Richland Community College   (United States)

^c IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hollow cathode discharge; Inertial electrostatic confinement (iec); Microchannels; Neutron source; Plasma breakdown; Spherical cathode

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; CATHODES; DEUTERIUM; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; NEUTRON SOURCES; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

HOLLOW CATHODE DISCHARGES; INERTIAL ELECTROSTATIC CONFINEMENT (IEC); MICROCHANNELS; PLASMA BREAKDOWN;

PLASMA CONFINEMENT;

EID: 0031209382     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.640696     Document Type: Article

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