PLASMA ELECTRON SOURCE WITH A BEAM
OF LARGE CROSS SECTION

V. A. Gruzdev, V. G. Zalesskii,
D. A. Antonovich, and Yu. P. Golubev

UDC 537.533;533.9.03;621.384

We present the design and characteristics of a plasma 
electron source based on a discharge in crossed E * H 
fields, which provides the formation of technological high-energy 
beams with a large cross section in steady-state and pulsed regimes, 
and consider conditions for excitation of a high-current anomalous 
glow discharge forming an emitting plasma in a pulsed regime.

Polotsk State University, Novopolotsk, Belarus; email: 
pit@psu.unibel.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, 
Vol. 75, No. 3, pp. 166-170, May-June, 2002. Original article 
submitted October 26, 2001.

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