Statistical Analysis of Electrical Breakdown Time Delay Distributions in Neon Tube at 13.3 mbar

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 31, Issue 6 II, 2003, Pages 1344-1348

  Maluckov, Čedomir A ^a   Karamarković, Jugoslav P ^b   Radović, Miodrag K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Breakdown time delay; Convolution function; Electrical breakdown in neon; Formative time distribution; Monte Carlo method; Statistical time delay distribution

Indexed keywords

DELAY CIRCUITS; ELECTRONS; IONIZATION OF GASES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEON; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

CARRIER MULTIPLICATION; HISTOGRAMS;

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN OF GASES;

EID: 1442311571     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2003.820678     Document Type: Article

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