LOW-PRESSURE MICROWAVE DISCHARGE
IN A PLASMATRON WITH A RECTANGULARLY SHAPED RESONATOR 
S. V. Bordusov

UDC 621.539

The author presents results of measurements of certain 
electrophysical characteristics that determine the operation of a 
microwave plasmatron based on a rectangularly shaped resonator with 
partial filling of the resonant volume with a plasma. It is established 
that the distributions of the microwave field and the local electrical 
conductivity of the plasma along the length of the discharge region 
are of a periodic character with alternating maxima and minima, and 
the change in the values of the temperature decreases continuously 
from the site of input of microwave energy to the resonator.

Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, 
Minsk, Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, 
Vol. 74, No. 5, 201-203, September-October, 2001. 
Original article submitted June 20, 2001.

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