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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