This article presents the results of a series of fundamental studies on a new type of a surface microwave discharge conducted at the Department of Physics of Moscow State University. The discharge is created by a surface wave on a dielectric antenna when powerful electromagnetic radiation in the centimeter wavelength range is supplied to it. The basic properties of a microwave discharge and the spatiotemporal evolution of the parameters of plasma generated by a surface discharge are investigated in a wide range of changes in external conditions.

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微波放电及其应用。一，表面微波放电

本文介绍了莫斯科国立大学物理系对新型表面微波放电进行的一系列基础研究的结果。当在厘米波长范围内提供强大的电磁辐射时，放电是由介电天线上的表面波产生的。在广泛的外部条件变化下，研究了微波放电的基本特性以及由表面放电产生的等离子体参数的时空演化。