High accuracy plasma density measurement using hybrid Langmuir probe and microwave interferometer method

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Deline, C ^a   Gilchrist, B E ^a   Dobson, C ^b   Jones, J E ^b   Chavers, D G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATICS; INTERFEROMETERS; LANGMUIR PROBES; MICROWAVE DEVICES;

ELECTROSTATIC PROBES; MAGNETIC NOZZLE; MICROWAVE INTERFEROMETERS; PLASMA DENSITY MEASUREMENT;

PLASMA DENSITY;

EID: 36749039277     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2813885     Document Type: Article

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