Variation of focus action with electrode length for an inner electrode of negative polarity

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 14-18

  Mathuthu, Manny ^a   Zengeni, Teddy G ^b   Gholap, Ashok V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Negative polarity; Plasma focus; Rise time

Indexed keywords

AIR; ARGON; ELECTRODES; NITROGEN;

NEGATIVE POLARITY; PLASMA CONTAMINATION; PLASMA FOCUS (PF) DEVICES;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 0031998757     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.659527     Document Type: Article

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