Microwave corona breakdown around metal corners and wedges

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 542-550

  Jordan, Ulf ^a   Dorozhkina, Daria S ^b   Semenov, Vladimir E ^b   Olsson, Torbjörn ^c   Anderson, Dan ^a   Lisak, Mietek ^a   Puech, Jérôme ^d   Nefedov, Igor M ^e,f   Shereshevskii, Ilya A ^e,f  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Powerwave Technologies   (Sweden)

^d CNES   (France)

^e INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS OF MICROSTRUCTURES   (Russian Federation)

^f LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Corners; Corona; Electric field singularities; Microwave breakdown

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXTRAPOLATION; MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES;

MICROWAVE CORONA BREAKDOWN; WEDGE-SHAPED GEOMETRY;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 34347372411     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2007.896987     Document Type: Article

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