Absence of saturation for finite injected currents in axially symmetric cavity diode

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 4521-4529

  Biswas, Debabrata ^a   Kumar, Raghwendra ^a   Puri, R R ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELATIVITY; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

CHILD-LANGMUIR LAW; INFINITE PARALLEL PLATE DIODE; SYMMETRIC CAVITY DIODE;

PLASMA DIODES;

EID: 0344117993     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1621397     Document Type: Article

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