Power loss in open cavity diodes and a modified Child-Langmuir law

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-5

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

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENTS; DIODES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

CHILD-LANGMUIR LAW; OPEN CAVITY DIODES; POWER LOSSES;

PLASMAS;

EID: 27344445431     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2030387     Document Type: Article

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