High-Temperature-Air Microwave Breakdown
- 15 March 1969
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 40 (4) , 1715-1720
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1657837
Abstract
The test section of an electric-arc shock tube was used to explore the dependence of microwave breakdown behavior on elevated gas temperature. Special diagnostic techniques included microwave interferometry and a flat-plate ion density probe. Results for air, nitrogen, and argon are in agreement with the proposed theory, and the importance of the nitrogen molecule in explaining the air data is established in the context of the theoretical model.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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