Effects of arcing on insulator surface charging condition in plasma environment

38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Cho, Mengu ^a   Miyata, Naoki ^a,b   Hikita, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SHIKOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; INSULATING MATERIALS; SPACECRAFT; SURFACE CHARGE;

CONDUCTIVE BODIES; ELECTRODE VOLTAGE; INSULATOR SURFACES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL CRYSTAL; PLASMA ENVIRONMENTS; POSITIVE SURFACE CHARGE; RECOVERY PROCESS;

SURFACE POTENTIAL;

EID: 85088720565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2000-872     Document Type: Conference Paper

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