Observation of Radio-Frequency Confinement of a Plasma
- 25 September 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 29 (13) , 834-837
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.29.834
Abstract
The breakdown field in a microwave cavity excited in the electric quadrupole mode exhibits a plateau at pressures below the electron mean-free-path limit of diffusion-controlled breakdown. The luminosity of a steady-state plasma in this domain exhibits a maximum at the central nodal point in the cavity field. These results are interpreted as evidence of rf confinement of a low-density plasma.Keywords
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