On Plasma Bullet Behavior

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2068-2073

  Xian, Yubin ^a   Lu, Xinpei ^a   Xiong, Qing ^a   Jiang, Zhonghe ^a   Pan, Yuan ^a   Cao, Yinguang ^b   Yang, Ping ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Plasma applications; plasma devices; plasma properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008030879     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2009.2028142     Document Type: Article

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