Modeling and Analysis of the Rimfire Gas Switch

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1245-1251

  Kemp, Mark A ^a   Curry, Randy D ^a   Gahl, John M ^a   McDonald, Kenneth F ^a   Struve, Kenneth W ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas switching; multichannel gaps; PSpice modeling; rimfire; spark gaps

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008054275     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.852439     Document Type: Article

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