In situ studies of emission characteristics of the dc thermal arc plasma column during synthesis of nano-AlN particles

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2611-2617

  Banerjee, Indrani ^a   Joshi, N K ^b   Sahasrabudhe, S N ^b   Karmakar, Soumen ^a   Kulkarni, Naveen V ^a   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)

Author keywords

Nanoparticle synthesis; Optical emission spectroscopy (OES); Plasma arc devices

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMA DENSITY;

ARC COLUMN; ARC CURRENT; REACTOR PRESSURE;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 33947380147     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.886059     Document Type: Article

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