Determination of metastable atom concentration by use of electrostatic probe technique

Science and Technology of Advanced Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 595-605

  Korzec, Dariusz ^a   Talukder, Mamunur Rashid ^b   Kando, Masashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pressure discharge; Electrostatic probe; Metastable helium; Microwave discharge; Plasma diagnostics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347139496     PISSN: 14686996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1468-6996(01)00142-5     Document Type: Article

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