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Analysis of line integrated electron density using plasma position data on Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced

Y U Nam1, J Chung

  • 1National Fusion Research Institute, Gwahangno 113, Daejeon 305-333, South Korea. yunam@nfri.re.kr

The Review of Scientific Instruments
|November 2, 2010
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