Application of vacuum arc cathode spot model to graphite cathode

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 821-826

  Beilis, Isak I ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON EMISSION; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA SIMULATION; PLASMA SOURCES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; TEMPERATURE; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

CATHODE EROSION; CATHODE EVAPORATION; CATHODE POTENTIAL DROP; CATHODE SPOT; DUSHMAN RELATIONSHIP; GRAPHITE CATHODE; JOULE HEATING; KINETIC TREATMENT; VACUUM ARC;

ELECTRIC ARCS;

EID: 0033312885     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.782245     Document Type: Article

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