Vandenplas P.E. Electron waves and resonances in bounded plasmas

Cambridge university press, Cambridge, 2011, 385 p. Low-temperature radio frequency plasmas are essential in various sectors of advanced technology, from micro-engineering to spacecraft propulsion systems and efficient sources of light. The subject lies at the complex interfaces between physics, chemistry and engineering. Focusing mostly on physics, this book will interest graduate students and researchers in applied physics and electrical engine...

For the last 30 years, international summer schools in plasma physics have been held at Culham Laboratory, in Oxfordshire. Culham is the United Kingdom centre for research in magnetically confined fusion plasmas, and is the site of the Joint European Torus. This book has been developed from lectures given at these schools, and provides a wide-ranging introduction to the theoretical and experimental study of plasmas and their applications. The fir...

Springer, 2005, 496 pages This book provides an overview of modern plasma research with special focus on confinement and related issues. Beginning with a broad introduction, the book leads graduate students and researchers – also those from related fields - to an understanding of the state-of-the-art in modern plasma physics. Furthermore, it presents a methodological cross section ranging from plasma applications and plasma diagnostics to numer...

Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2009, 732 pages This monograph presents an up to date perspective of gas discharge physics and its applications to various industries. It starts from a comprehensive overview of the different types to generate plasmas by DC discharges, capacitive and inductive radiofrequency coupling, helicon waves including electron cyclotron resonance, and ion beams. To compare these theories with inert plasmas, a fundamental descript...

Wiley-VCH, 2009, 253 pages Authored by a highly regarded plasma scientist, this book fills the gap for a topical reference and source with a professional audience in mind. While the use of this critical method at the international fusion reactor, ITER, is covered in detail, the monograph also includes planetary magnetospheres and plasma sources for commercial applications. The goal of the present work is to collect in one place most of the basi...

Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN: 0521193729, 270 pages This unified introduction provides the tools and techniques needed to analyze plasmas and connects plasma phenomena to other fields of study. Combining mathematical rigor with qualitative explanations, and linking theory to practice with example problems, this is a perfect textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students taking one-semester introductory plasma physics courses....

Springer, 2010, -398p. This book is an outgrowth of courses in plasma physics which I have taught at Kiel University for many years. During this time I have tried to convince my students that plasmas as different as gas dicharges, fusion plasmas and space plasmas can be described in a unified way by simple models. The challenge in teaching plasma physics is its apparent complexity. The wealth of plasma phenomena found in so diverse fields makes i...

WILEY-VCH Verlag, 2007, 572 p. Distributions and Equilibria for Particle Ensembles Elementary Processes in Plasma Slow Atomic Collisions Collisions Involving Electrons Elementary Radiative Processes in Excited Gases Boltzmann Kinetic Equation Transport and Kinetics of Electrons in Gases in External Fields Transport of Ions and Atoms in Gases and Plasmas Kinetics and Radiative Transport of Excitations in Gases Processes in Photoresonant Plasma W...

Imperial College Press, Singapore, 2005, 439 p. The physics of complex plasma systems containing a colloid macroscopic particle component (dust) is a rapidly emerging area at the forefront of the physics and chemistry of plasmas and gas discharges, space physics and astrophysics, and materials science and engineering. Complex plasma systems with nano- and microscopic particle inclusions is now a hot topic for many research areas. Such plasma syst...

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1995, 539 pages. Modulational Interactions in Plasmas is the first book to present all the basic considerations relevant to the topic. It adopts a simple and universal approach, based on new methods developed for the description of modulation interactions in arbitrary media. Emphasis is given to the role of modulational interactions in fundamental topics, such as laser acceleration, the gene...