Ignition and burning of vacuum arcs on tungsten layers

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 5 I, 2005, Pages 1470-1475

  Laux, Michael ^a   Schneider, Wolfgang ^a   Jüttner, Burkhard ^b   Balden, Martin ^a   Lindig, Stefan ^a   Beilis, Isak I ^c   Djakov, Boyan E ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Tokamaks; Tungsten; Vacuum arcs; Vacuum breakdown

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IGNITION; PLASMA DEVICES; TUNGSTEN; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

FUSION DEVICES; GRAPHITE CATHODES; SURFACE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; TUNGSTEN LAYERS; VACUUM ARCS; VACUUM BREAKDOWN;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 27744474948     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.856501     Document Type: Article

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