Characterization of atmospheric pressure glow discharge in helium using langmuir probe, emission spectroscopy, and discharge resistivity

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 35, Issue 4 III, 2007, Pages 1135-1142

  Srivastava, Anand Kumar ^a   Garg, Manoj Kumar ^a   Ganesh Prasad, K S ^a   Kumar, Vinay ^a   Chowdhuri, Malay Bikas ^a   Prakash, Ram ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA RESEARCH   (India)

^b BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pressure glow discharge (APGD); Discharge resistivity; Helium line intensity ratios; Langmuir probe; Plasma stealth

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; GLOW DISCHARGES; HELIUM; LANGMUIR PROBES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE GLOW DISCHARGE (APGD); DISCHARGE RESISTIVITY; HELIUM LINE INTENSITY RATIOS; PLASMA STEALTH;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 34548310394     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2007.897902     Document Type: Article

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