Electron Temperature-Gradient Instability and Anomalous Skin Effect in Tokamaks
- 27 November 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 29 (22) , 1489-1492
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.29.1489
Abstract
The drift-wave instability due to an electron temperature gradient opposite to the density gradient is analyzed as a possible explanation for the observed anomalous skin effect in tokamaks.Keywords
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