Transport of a vacuum arc plasma beam through the aperture of an annular anode

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 5 I, 2005, Pages 1631-1635

  Zhitomirsky, Vladimir N ^a   Boxman, Raymond L ^a   Goldsmith, Samuel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Magnetic fields; Plasma measurements; Vacuum arcs; Vacuum arc plasma jet

Indexed keywords

ANODES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMA JETS; PLASMA PROBES; PLASMA SOURCES; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

PLASMA MEASUREMENTS; VACUUM ARC PLASMA JET; VACUUM ARCS;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 27644499240     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.856491     Document Type: Article

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