Leading experts examine the theory, principles, and recent applications of vacuum arc devices, with special attention to the intensive research and development on the high-power vacuum circuit interrupter conducted at the General Electric Research and Development Center. Covers all important aspects of vacuum discharges: the wide variety of breakdown processes; Arc ignition by plasma triggering; the arc cathode; the emission process at the arc anode; high-current anode processes; and commercial and non-commercial applications of vacuum interrupters.
- ISBN10 0471065064
- ISBN13 9780471065067
- Publish Date 22 January 1980
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 18 August 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 392
- Language English