Hybrid stirling / reverse Brayton and multi-stage Brayton cryocoolers for space applications

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 823 II, Issue , 2006, Pages 1489-1496

  Kirkconnell, C S ^a   Zagarola, M V ^b   Russo, J T ^a  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^b CREARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; Hybrid; Pulse tube; Stirling; Turbo Brayton

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845441690     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2202572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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