EECS 517/NERS 578 Physical Processes in Plasmas
Fall 2012
Handouts
Handout Package-v01 (19.6 MB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
Naval Research Lab Plasma Formulary 2011 (451 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
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Individual Handouts (Note: The individual handouts are a subset of what appears in the master handout package.)
- Plasmas vs electron density-and-temperature (106 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Copper Vapor Laser (146 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Copper Vapor Laser Parameters (32 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Gaseous Electronics Reference Cell (205 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Examples of Plasma Etching Profiles (454 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Typical Etch Profiles in Si (320 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Tool Schematic (59 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Properties (103 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Commercial Plasma Tool: Tegal Plasma Etch (1.1 MB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Commercial Plasma Tool: Applied Materials DPS Etcher (304 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Trikon MORI Helicon Plasma Etching Tool (44 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Electric Field and Electron Temperature in a Helicon Plasma Tool (145 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- ICPs in Electronegative Gases (300 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Streamers in Air (189 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Glow to Arc Transition in Air (83 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Dielectric Barrier Discharges through Glass Beads (153 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Atmospheric Pressure Microwave Discharges (99 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Atmospheric Pressure He Discharge (94 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Arc Plasma Jet (154 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Plasma Display Panels (300 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Plasma Lighting Sources (104 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Hall Thruster for Spacecraft Propulsion (152 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Large Area Plasma Source (NRL) (353 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Microdischarge Fabricated in Si Wafer (2.5 MB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Microdischarge Array (162 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- High Power Density Laser Produced Plasma (113 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- "Sloshing" of electrons about ions - Plasma Frequency (10 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Units for Debye Length and Plasma Frequency (243 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Relation Between Fluxes.... (13.9 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Electron Impact Cross Sections: SO2, CH4 (115 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Ideal Molecule (178 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Elastic Differential Cross Section for Ne (233 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Origin of the Ramsauer Minimum (51 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Elastic, Momentum Transfer and Total Cross Sections: He, Ar (116 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Electron Mobilities in He and Ar (10.9 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Drift Velocities in He and Ar (19 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Elastic Cross Sections: Ar, Xe, Kr, Cs, Hg, N2, H2, O2 (182 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- He elastic cross sections and Drawin excitation cross section (256 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Drawin Electron Impact Cross Section Parameters (47 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Selection of Electron Impact Cross Sections: He, Na, N2, Vibrational Excitation Mechanism, CO, NF3 (332 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Drawin/Gryzinski ionization cross section and ionization rate coefficient (6.2 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Ionization cross sections: He, CF4, Rare Gases (74 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Electron temperature and mobility in Nitrogen (3.4 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Derivation of the Superelastic Cross Section (69 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Superelastic vs Inelastic Cross Section (12 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Analytic Expressions for Electron Impact Cross Sections (97 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Concept of Rate Equations. (352 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Electron temperature during and following a voltage pulse (12.6 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Comparison of diffusion and recombination losses (10.2 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Derivation of the Einstein relation (3.3 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Diffusion Coefficients for Electrons and Ions in Helium (36 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Ambipolar Electric field (9 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Does ambipolar diffusion violate Debye shielding? (5.5 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Transition from ambipolar-to-free diffusion (29.7 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Deriving the electron temperature when diffusion dominates (9.0 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Deriving the ambipolar diffusion coefficient and ambipolar electric field (77 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Cylindrical Glow Discharge Example (16 kb, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Sheaths in Inductively Coupled Plasma (70 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Floating and Plasma Potentials (8 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Sheath potential and charge densities (general case) (19.1 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Sheath potential with thermal emission from surface (23 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Notation for electron velocity and energy distributions (16 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Boltzmann's equation in energy representation (31 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Sperical Harmonic Expansion of Boltzmann's Equation (26 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Druyvestine vs Maxwellian electron energy distribution (1.5 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Ideal Molecule: Electron energy distribution with electronic excitation only (46.6 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Ideal Molecule: Electron energy distribution with vibrational excitation only (39.2 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Ideal Molecule: Electron energy distribution with all processes (44.7 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Ar: Electron Impact Cross Sections and Electron Energy Distributions (58 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- CF4: Electron Impact Cross Sections and Electron Energy Distributions (63 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- N2: Electron Impact Cross Sections and Electron Energy Distributions (78 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Obtaining Transport Coefficients from Boltzmann's Equation (23 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Electron energy distribution in cathode fall (65 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Glow Discharge Showing Cathode Fall (106 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Glow Discharge With Striations (650 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Analytic Derivation of Properties of Normal Glow Cathode Fall (232 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Hollow Cathode Lamp (154 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- W-Values for excitation rates in e-beam pumped plasmas (64 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- NIKE Electron Beam Pumped KrF Laser (162 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Halogen burnup in excimer lasers (54 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Electron energy distributions in e-beam pumped plasmas (129 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Plasma etching schematic (62 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Anisotropy and feature size in plasma etching (161 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Electric fields in rf glow discharges (164 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Model of rf Glow Discharge (223 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- rf Voltage-Current for Symmetric and Assymetric Systems (13 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Methods of Measuring IEDs and Examples (659 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- A simple model for rf capacitively coupled discharges and Example of Scaling (296 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Schematic of an Inductively Coupled Plasma reactor (44 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- ICP Electric fields and electron impact sources (70 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- ICP General Properties and Introduction (1.2 MB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Wave Equation and Skin Depth (404 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Schematic of an Electron Cyclotron Resonance reactor: #1 (289 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Schematic of an Electron Cyclotron Resonance reactor: #2 (148 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Plasma properties in an ECR reactor (669 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Electron energy distributions in an ECR reactor (79 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Electron temperatures in an ECR reactor (52 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- ECR Reactors (64 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- VASMIR ICR Plasma Rocket (128 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Langmuir Probe Geometries 1 and IV Schematic (390 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Langmuir Probe Geometries 2 (142 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Electric Probe I-V Characteristic (199 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)
- Langmuir Probe Measurements: ICP Reactor (247 kB, Posted: 4 Sept 2012)