Photographic plasma images and electron number density as well as electron temperature mappings of a plasma sustained with a modified argon microwave plasma torch (MPT) measured by spatially resolved Thomson scattering

Spectrochimica acta, Part B: Atomic spectroscopy

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1253-1266

  Prokisch, C ^a   Bilgic, A M ^a   Voges, E ^a   Broekaert, J A C ^b   Jonkers, J ^c   Van Sande, M ^c   Van Der Mullen, J A M ^c  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; FLOW MEASUREMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA TORCHES;

ELECTRON NUMBER DENSITY; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; THOMSON SCATTERING;

PLASMA FLOW;

EID: 0032594630     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(99)00074-9     Document Type: Article

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