In situ optical emission spectroscopic investigations during arc plasma synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles by thermal plasma

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 4 I, 2006, Pages 1175-1182

  Banerjee, Indrani ^a   Joshi, N K ^b   Sahasrabudhe, S N ^b   Kulkarni, Naveen V ^a   Karmakar, Soumen ^a   Pasricha, R ^c   Ghorui, S ^b   Tak, Atul K ^b   Murthy, Shri P S S ^b   Bhoraskar, S V ^a   Das, A K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^c NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Plasma arc device; Plasma materials processing applications; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; IRON OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMA ARC DEVICE; THERMAL PLASMA;

PLASMA APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33747849903     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.878430     Document Type: Article

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