Plasma physics: Modern diagnostic techniques
APR 01, 1963
Currently used methods for determining the physical characteristics of plasmas are discussed in this article, which is based on a talk delivered at the plasma physics symposium of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society. Sanborn C. Brown is professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3050874
To begin, I would like to define the terms in the title. By modern, I mean within the last ten years. The word diagnostics is borrowed from medical usage and, as linked here with plasmas, it means “looking at the physics of”. In discussing techniques, there is of course such a range that one needs a guiding thread and, in this case, I have arbitrarily chosen to start with dc and work towards higher frequencies.
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Sanborn C. Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
© 1963 American Institute of Physics
