Electron beam extraction from a broad-beam vacuum-arc metal plasma source

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1562-1565

  Oks, Efim M ^a   Brown, Lan G ^a  

^a TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY OF CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RADIOELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Electron beams; Electron gun; Ion source; Metal plasma; Plasma source; Vacuum arc

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON GUNS; ION SOURCES; PARTICLE BEAM EXTRACTION;

VACUUM ARC METAL PLASMA SOURCES;

PLASMA SOURCES;

EID: 0032180840     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.736062     Document Type: Article

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