Plasma Digital Determining Device
J. C. Sprott, T. W. Lovell, and D.
J. Holly
Department of Physics, University
of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
(Filed: May 29, 1975)
ABSTRACT
The density of a decaying plasma in an electrically conducting
enclosure is determined by applying an excitation to the cavity
formed by the enclosure and counting digitally the number of
resonant frequencies traversed by the combination of the cavity and
the decaying plasma.
Ref: J. C. Sprott, T. W. Lovell, and
D. J. Holly, U.S. Patent No. 3952246 (1976)
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