Nature of the Mesyats effect-pulsed superheating of microscopic spikes on a cathode
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- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics
- Vol. 89 (6) , 1180-1183
Abstract
A study is made of an effect observed experimentally by Mesyats which involves, prior to the electrical explosion, as such, the accumulation of an energy on the order of a few times the sublimation enKeywords
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