Study of the effects of the prefilled-plasma parameters on the operation of a short-conduction plasma opening switch

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1596-1605

  Weingarten, Amit ^a,b,c   Bernshtam, Vladimir A ^a,b,c   Fruchtman, Amnon ^a,b,c   Grabowski, Chris ^a,b,c   Krasik, Yakov E ^a,b,c   Maron, Yitzhak ^a,b,c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Plasma devices, plasma measurements, pulse power system switches

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA SHEATHS;

PLASMA OPENING SWITCHES (POS);

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 0033280255     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.808932     Document Type: Article

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