Experimental study of the behavior of liquid metal under the plasma of a cathode spot

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 31, Issue 5 I, 2003, Pages 827-831

  Batrakov, Alexander ^a   Jüttner, Burkhard ^b   Popov, Sergey ^a   Proskurovsky, Dmitry ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cathode spot; Cathode spot plasma; Dynamics of liquid metal; Vacuum discharge

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; LIQUID METALS; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; VACUUM;

CATHODE SPOT PLASMA; VACUUM ARC CATHODE SPOT; VACUUM DISCHARGE;

PLASMAS;

EID: 0242292101     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2003.818428     Document Type: Article

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