Current sheath dynamics and x-ray emission studies from sequential dense plasma focus device

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1263-1270

  Gupta, Ruby ^a,c   Mohanty, S R ^a,b   Rawat, R S ^a,b   Srivastava, M P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b Centre of Plasma Physics   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTRONS; GAS LASERS; PLASMA SHEATHS; SPECTROMETERS; TEMPERATURE; X RAYS;

CURRENT SHEATH; DENSE PLASMA FOCUS DEVICE; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; SHADOWGRAPHY; X RAY EMISSION;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 0034239983     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.893315     Document Type: Article

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