Atmospheric microwave plasma jet for material processing

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 1863-1871

  Al Shamma'a, Ahmed I ^a   Wylie, Stephen R ^a   Lucas, Jim ^a   Yan, Jiu Dun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrical field simulation; Industrial applications; Material processing; Microwave plasma; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; NOZZLES; PLASMA TORCHES; PLASMA WELDING; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRICAL FIELD SIMULATION; MATERIAL PROCESSING; MICROWAVE PLASMA; PLASMA CHEMISTRY; RADIO FREQUENCY DISCHARGE;

PLASMA JETS;

EID: 0036826719     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.805371     Document Type: Article

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