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The control characteristics of vacuum plasma generators are experimentally studied under glow discharge conditions with transition to the conditions of anomalous glow discharge and arc discharge. The use of a high-frequency current source in parallel to a dc source is shown to increase the ionic current and to decrease the time of starting conditions. A method for heating the bulk hollow cathodes of plasma generators is considered.
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Cherednichenko, A.V., Cherednichenko, L.E. Heating of the Hollow Cathodes of Vacuum Plasma Generators. Russ. Metall. 2020, 1383–1389 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036029520120095
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