Electrode erosion of a high energy impulse spark gap switch

Plasma Science and Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3157-3160

  Yao, Xueling ^a,b   Zeng, Zhengzhong ^a   Chen, Jinliang ^b  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Erosion morphology; High energy spark gap switch; Impulse transferred charge or transferred energy; Mass loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 29444441928     PISSN: 10090630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/7/6/021     Document Type: Article

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