Spatio-temporal distributions of copper vapor particles in a vacuum arc discharge plasma

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 5 I, 2005, Pages 1491-1496

  Sung, Youl Moon ^a   Zhu, Yong ^a   Otsubo, Masahisa ^a   Honda, Chikahisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Copper particles behavior; Laser induced fluorescence; Vacumn circuit breaker; Vacuum arc discharge

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CATHODES; CIRCUIT BREAKING ARCS; COPPER; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; FLUORESCENCE; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY;

COPPER PARTICLES BEHAVIOR; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; VACUUM ARC DISCHARGE; VACUUM CIRCUIT BREAKER;

PLASMAS;

EID: 27644564871     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.856330     Document Type: Article

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