Fan-shaped microwave plasma for mail decontamination

Plasma Sources Science and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 581-586

  Kuo, Spencer P ^a   Popovic, S ^b   Tarasenko, Olga ^c   Rubinraut, M ^a   Raskovic, M ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; DECONTAMINATION; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MICROWAVES;

MICROWAVE CAVITY; MICROWAVE TORCH; REACTIVE ATOMIC OXYGEN;

PLASMA WAVES;

EID: 34547748542     PISSN: 09630252     EISSN: 13616595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/16/3/017     Document Type: Article

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