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The paper deals with the results of investigations of spatial structures of continuous microwave discharge in a quasi-optical resonator. The results are given of experimental observations and easurements of the parameters of plasma in discharges of different forms, and the reasons are analyzed for the formation of spatial discharge structures. It is demonstrated that, as a result of the plasma-resonance amplification of the field, the discharge makes a transition to the contracted state with a size that is much less than the microwave-frequency wavelength and with an electron concentration in excess of the critical. It is found that the stratification of the contracted state across the electric field vector, which arises in some gases, is caused by the development of thermoelectric-current instability that was not previously observed in microwave discharges.
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Translated from Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 120, No. 2, 2001, pp. 366–378.
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Vikharev, A.L., Gorbachev, A.M., Ivanov, O.A. et al. Spatial structures of continuous microwave discharge. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 93, 324–335 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1402733
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