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Springer Electron Kinetics And Applications Of Glow Discharges 1998 Edition by Uwe Kortshagen Lev D. Tsendin
This book resulted from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Electron Kinetics and Applications of Glow Discharges" held in St. Petersburg Russia on May 19-23 1997. Glow discharges have found widespread applications in many technological processes from the manufacture of semiconductors to recent developments in na- technology to the traditional fields of gas lasers and discharge lamps. Consequently the interest in the physics of glow discharges has experienced yet another resurgence of interest. While the non-equilibrium character of glow discharges is widely accepted the opinion still prevails that the main features can be captured by fluid models and that kinetic treatments are only required for the understanding of subtle details. The erroneousness of this belief is demonstrated by the failure of fluid models to describe many basic features of glow discharges such as for instance electrode phenomena striations and collisionless heating effects. An adequate description of glow discharges thus has to be of kinetic nature. Table of contents : Analytical and Semi-Analytical Modeling Approaches: Principles of the Electron Kinetics in Glow Discharges;L.D. Tsendin. Basics of Numerical Plasma Modeling: Particle Simulation Methods for Glow Discharges: Past Present and Future with Applications; C.K. Birdsall. DC Discharges I: DC Positive Column in the Nonlocal Regime; J. Ingold. DC Discharges II: Electron Kinetics in Homogeneous and Stratified Positive Column and Anode Region; Y. Golubovskii V. Nekuchaev. Stochastic Electron Heating I: The Dynamics of Fermi Acceleration; M.A. Lieberman. Stochastic Electron Heating II: Collisionless Electron Heating in RF Gas Discharges: II - The Role of Collisions and Non-Linear Effects; I.D. Kaganovich. Inductively Coupled Plasmas: Modeling and Diagnostics of Low Pressure Inductively Coupled Plasmas; U. Kortshagen. Discharge Kinetics in Molecular Gases: New Trends in the Kinetic Modeling of Discharges in Low Pressure Molecular Gases; C.M. Ferreira. Magnetized Discharges Surface Wave Discharges: Surface Wave Sustained Discharges; H. Schluter. Advanced Diagnostics I: Advanced Diagnostics I: 24 Additional Articles. Index.