High-Voltage Breakdown and Conditioning of Carbon and Molybdenum Electrodes

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1136-1148

  Goebel, Dan M ^a   Schneider, Analyn C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerators; electrical breakdown; ion sources; traveling wave tubes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008050251     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.852410     Document Type: Article

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