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Physical Mechanisms of the Electron Energy Distribution Function Control in Inhomogeneous Non-stationary Plasma. / Kudryavtsev, Anatoly; Tsendin, Lev.

In: Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 56, No. 15, 2011, p. 1.

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Kudryavtsev, Anatoly ; Tsendin, Lev. / Physical Mechanisms of the Electron Energy Distribution Function Control in Inhomogeneous Non-stationary Plasma. In: Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2011 ; Vol. 56, No. 15. pp. 1.

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