Third-harmonic, top-launch, ECRH experiments on TCV tokamak

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1224-1231

  Alberti, S ^a   Arnoux, G ^a   Porte, L ^a   Hogge, J P ^a   Marletaz, B ^a   Marmillod, P ^a   Martin, Y ^a   Nowak, S ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ASSOCIAZIONE EURATOM ENEA SULLA FUSIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; GYROTRONS; MIRRORS; PLASMAS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

BEAM-TRACING CODES; HEATING PLASMAS; L-MODE PLASMAS;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 26844432455     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/45/11/002     Document Type: Article

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