SHEET PLASMA DEVICE
An ion-electron plasma heating apparatus of the pinch tube class is designed wherein a plasma is formed by an intense arc discharge through a gas and is radially constricted by the magnetic field of the discharge. To avoid kink and interchange instabilities which can disrupt a conventional arc shortly after it is formed, a pinch tube has a flat configuration for forming a sheet of plasma between two conductive plates disposed parallel and adjacent to the plasma sheet. Kink instabilities are suppressed by image currents induced in the conductive plates while the interchange instabilities are neutrally stable because of the flat plasma configuration wherein such instabilities may occur but do not dynamically increase in amplitude. (AEC)
- Research Organization:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- NSA Number:
- NSA-16-033958
- Assignee:
- DTIE; NSA-16-033958
- Patent Number(s):
- US 3044945
- OSTI ID:
- 4777423
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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