Stability of an electromagnetically levitated spherical sample in a set of coaxial circular loops

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2089-2101

  Priede, Janis ^a   Gerbeth, Gunter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic analysis; Electromagnetic forces; Electromechanical effects; Levitation; Spheres

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); PROBLEM SOLVING; SPHERES; STABILITY; VECTORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES; ELECTROMECHANICAL EFFECTS; LEVITATION;

MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS;

EID: 21644434509     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.848322     Document Type: Article

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