Synopses & Reviews
Gas Discharge Physics Here is both a textbook for beginners and a handbook for specialists in plasma physics and gaseous electronics. The book contains much useful data: results of experiments and calculations, and reference data. It provides estimates of typical parameters and formulas in forms suitable for computations. Gas discharges of all important types are discussed: breakdown, glow, arc, spark and corona at radio frequency, micorwave and optical frequencies. The generation of plasma electrons at electrostatic and electromagnetic fields, low- temperature plasma generation, and applications to high- power gas lasers are treated in detail.
Synopsis
Here is both a textbook for beginners and a reference book for specialists in plasma physics and gaseous electronics. The reader is provided with data, estimates of typical parameters, and formulas in forms suitable for computations. A comprehensive bibliography of relevant literature is included. Gas discharges of all important types are dealt with in detail.
Synopsis
Here is both a textbook for beginners and a handbook for specialists in plasma physics and gaseous electronics. The book contains much useful data: results of experiments and calculations, and reference data. It provides estimates of typical parameters and formulas in forms suitable for computations. Gas discharges of all important types are discussed: breakdown, glow, arc, spark and corona at radio frequency, microwave and optical frequences. The generation of plasma, and its application to high power gas lasers are treated in detail.
Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction.- Drift, Energy and Diffusion of Charges Particles in Constant Fields.- Interaction of Electrons in an Ionized Gas with Oscillating Electric Field and Electromagnetic Waves.- Production and Decay of Charges Particles.- Kinetic Equation for Electrons in a Weakly Ionized Gas Placed in an Electric Field.- Electric Probes.- Breakdown of Gases in Fields of Various Frequency Ranges.- Stable Glow Discharge.- Glow Discharge Instabilities and Their Consequences.- Arc Discharge.- Substainment and Production of Equilibrium Plasma.- Spark and Corona Discharge.- Capacitvely Coupled Radio-Frequency Discharge.- Discharges in High-Power CW CO2 Lasers.- Appendix.- References.- Subject Index.