Design and construction a microwave plasma jet system for material processing

PPPS 2001 - Pulsed Power Plasma Science 2001

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 1308-1311

  Al Shamma'a, A I ^a   Wylie, S R ^a   Lucas, J ^a   Stuart, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATORS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CUTTING; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; MAGNETRONS; MICROWAVES; NITROGEN PLASMA; NOZZLE DESIGN; PLASMA JETS; WAVEGUIDES;

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; DESIGN PARAMETERS; ELECTRICAL FIELD; MATERIAL PROCESSING; MATERIAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; MICROWAVE PLASMA JET; WAVEGUIDE APERTURES; WAVEGUIDE BASED APPLICATOR;

MICROWAVE MATERIALS PROCESSING;

EID: 84935009619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PPPS.2001.1001790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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