With its strong focus on the links between theory and experiment or technological process, this book presents the latest advances in our understanding of how plasmas behave. New contributions to this second edition cover dusty plasmas, cross-correlation spectroscopy, atmospheric pressure glow discharges, as well as applications in lightening, microelectronics, polymer surface modification, sterilization, biology and medicine. Straddling the boundaries between physics, chemistry and materials science, this is of interest to a wide community. From reviews of the first edition: "...it makes a highly valuable contribution to the subject area and will be accessible to scientists and engineers working in the field." ChemPhysChem
- Characteristics of low-temperature plasmas under non-thermal conditions, a short summary
- Electron kinetics in weakly ionized plasmas
- Elementary collision processes in plasmaS
- Fundamental processes of plasma-surface interactions
- Modelling of plasma-wall Interaction
- NEW Fundamentals of Dusty Plasmas (Melzer, Goree)
- NEW Plasmas under microgravity
- NEW Nucleation and growth of dust particles in low pressure cold plasmas (Boufendi)
- Langmuir probe diagnostics of low-temperature plasmas
- Diagnostics of non-equilibrium molecular plasmas using emission and absorption spectroscopy
- Mass spectrometric diagnostics
- NEW Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy of Non-Thermal Gas Discharges at Atmospheric Pressure
- Ellipsometric analysis of plasma-treated surfaces
- Characterization of thin solid films
- Plasma sources
- Reactive non-thermal plasmas - chemical quasi-equilibria, similarity principles and macroscopic kinetics
- High pressure plasmas: dielectric-barrier and corona discharges - properties and technical applications
- NEW Atmospheric Pressure Glow discharges
- NEW High-Pressure Microdischarges
- Transient plasma-assisted diesel exhaust remediation
- NEW Transient Plasma Ignition
- Plasma display panel
- Low pressure discharge light sources
- High-pressure plasma light sources
- Plasma etching in microelectronics
- Low temperature plasmas for polymer surface modification
- NEW EUV Lamps
- NEW Plasma etching in microelectronics
- NEW Magnetron discharges for Thin Film Deposition
- NEW Hollow Cathodes and plasma jetzs for thin film deposition
- NEW Low-temperature plasmas for polymer surface modification
- Plasma-enhanced deposition of superhard thin films
- NEW Applications of Dusty plasmas
- NEW Cold Plasma-Based Sterilization
- NEW Plasmas for Sterilization II
- NEW Cold gas plasmas in biology and medicine
- Markets for plasma technology