A short-pulsed compact supersonic helium beam source for plasma diagnostics

Plasma Devices and Operations

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-89

  Andruczyk, D ^a   Namba, S ^b   James, B W ^a   Takiyama, K ^b   Oda, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA KOKUSAI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atomic beam; Helium; Magnetic confinement; Plasma diagnostics; Supersonic

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NOZZLES; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; SUPERSONIC FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ATOMIC BEAM; MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT; SUPERSONIC;

HELIUM;

EID: 32944477483     PISSN: 10519998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10519990500517961     Document Type: Article

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