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A survey of recent advances in discharge physics

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1943-1954)

Summary

  1. 1.

    Historical notes.

  2. 2.

    Fundamental ionization processes.

  3. 3.

    Charge transfer, mobility, recombination and ionization in electric fields.

  4. 4.

    Discharges: phenomena and properties.

  5. 5.

    Methods of measurement.

Riassunto

  1. 1.

    Note storiche.

  2. 2.

    Processi di ionizzazione fondamentali.

  3. 3.

    Trasporto delle cariche, mobilità, ricombinazione e ionizzazione nei campi elettrici

  4. 4.

    Scariche: fenomoni e proprietà.

  5. 5.

    Metodi di misura.

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Extract from a lecture given to the National Congress of the S.I.F. at Bologna (September 1950) an the occasion of the Righi Centenary Celebrations.

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von Engel, A. A survey of recent advances in discharge physics. Nuovo Cim 8, 42–53 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02773026

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