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Record 1 1980-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electronics
CONT

The interaction of an intense electromagnetic field with the critical-density layer in a nonuniform plasma is a problem of topical interest in laser-heating and -compression experiments. Microwave experiments in a tenuous plasma have demonstrated resonant enhancement of electric fields at this layer, and a density cavity, or caviton, was observed (...)

OBS

Field of plasma studies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électronique
CONT

[Les ondes et instabilités dans les plasmas] tendent à devenir le langage des plasmas, par lequel on peut rendre compte des phénomènes naturels (magnétosphère, vent solaire et "choc d'étrave"; diffusion et confinement) (...). Un langage en pleine évolution, qui invente des mots nouveaux (les "cavitons", les "collapsons"), emprunte ailleurs des paroles sacrées (turbulence) (...)

OBS

Domaine de l'étude des plasmas.

Spanish

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