Description
In this new book, an interdisciplinary and international team of experts provides an exploration of the emerging plasma science that is poised to make the plasma technology a reality in the manufacturing sector. The research presented here will stimulate new ideas, methods, and applications in the field of plasma science and nanotechnology.
Plasma technology applications are being developed that could impact the global market for power, electronics, mineral, and other fuel commodities. Currently, plasma science is described as a revolutionary discipline in terms of its possible impact on industrial applications. It offers potential solutions to many problems using emerging techniques. In this book the authors provide a broad overview of recent trends in field plasma science and nanotechnology.
Divided into several parts, Plasma and Fusion Science: From Fundamental Research to Technological Applications explores some basic plasma applications and research, space and atmospheric plasma, nuclear fusion, and laser plasma and industrial applications of plasma. A wide variety of cutting-edge topics are covered, including:
• basic plasma physics
• computer modeling for plasma
• exotic plasma (including dusty plasma)
• industrial plasma applications
• laser plasma
• nuclear fusion technology
• plasma diagnostics
• plasma processing
• pulsed power
• space astrophysical plasma
• plasma and nanotechnology
Pointing to current and possible future developments in plasma science and technology, the diverse research presented here will be valuable for researchers, scientists, industry professionals, and others involved in the revolutionary field of plasma and fusion science.
Table of Contents
Plasma Treatment of Powder and Granulates
Petr Špatenka, Taťana Vacková, and Zdeňka Jeníková
Plasma Dynamical Devices (Review of Fundamental Results and Applications)
Alexey Goncharov
Conceptual Design of a Permanent Ring Magnet-Based Helicon Plasma Source
Arun Pandey, Dass Sudhir, M. Bandyopadhyay, and A. Chakraborty
Solitary Wave Solutions of Modified Kadomstev-Petviashivili Equation for Hot Adiabatic Dusty Plasma Having Non-Thermal Ions with Trapped Electrons
Apul Narayan Dev, Rajesh Subedi, and Jnanjyoti Sarma
Global Transition from Drift Wave Dominated Regimes to Multi-Instability Plasma Dynamics and Simultaneous Formation of a Radial Transport Barrier
Saikat Chakraborty Thakur, Christian Brandt, Lang Cui, Jordan J. Gosselin, and George R. Tynan
Magnetic Drift and Its Effect on Cross-Field Diffusion Process
P. Hazarika, B. K. Das, M. Chakraborty, and M. Bandyopadhyay
On the Effect of Base Pressure upon Plasma Containment
G. Sahoo, R. Paikaray, S. Samantaray, P. S. Das, J. Ghosh, and A. Sanyasi
Ion-Acoustic Dressed Solitons on Electron-Positron-Ion Plasma with Nonisothermal Electrons
Parveen Bala and Tarsem Singh Gill
Arbitrary Amplitude Kinetic Alfven Solitary Waves in a Plasma with Two-Temperature Electrons
Latika Kalita
Nonlinear Dust Kinetic Alfvén Waves in a Dust–Ion Plasma with Ions Following Q-Non-Extensive Velocity Distribution
M. K. Ahmed and O. P. Sah
Study Generation of Pulsed High Current with Aluminium Electrolytic Capacitor
Pankaj Deb and On Anurag Shyam
Effect of Radio Frequency Power on Magnetron Sputtered TiO2 Thin Films
R. Satheesh, S. Sankar, and K. G. Gopchandran
Stability of Kinetic Alfven Wave (KAW) in a Cometary Plasma with Streaming Electrons and Protons
Sreekala G., Sijo Sebastian, Manesh Michael, Savithri Devi E., C. P. Anilkumar, and Chandu Venugopal
External Magnetic Field Effect on Absorption of Surface Plasma Waves by Metal Nano-Particles
Deepika, Prashant Chauhan, Anshu Varshney, D. B. Singh, and Vivek Sajal
Plasma Waves beyond the Solar System
Vipin K. Yadav and Anil Bhardwaj
Jeans Instability of a Self-Graviatating Viscous Molecular Cloud Under the Influence of Finite Electron Inertia, Hall Effect: Fine Dust Particles and Rotation
D.L. Sutar and R.K. Pensia
Structural Fabrication: Study of Infrastructure Facilities Required to Convert Concept to Reality
Gautam R. Vadolia
DAC-Controlled Voltage Variable RF Attenuator for Generating RF Pulses of Different Shapes and Amplitudes for RF-ICRH System
Manoj Singh, Hm Jadav, Ramesh Joshi, Sunil Kumar, Srinivas Yss, Sv Kulkarni, and Rf-Icrh Group
Investigation of the Effect of Thermal Cycle on SS/CRZ Brazed Joint Sample
K. P. Singh, Alpesh Patel, Kedar Bhope, S Belsare, Nikunj Patel, Prakash Mokaria, and S. S Khirwadkar
Design and Test Results of a 200kV, 15mA High Voltage DC Test Generator
Amal S., Urmil M. Thaker, Kumar Saurabh, and Ujjwal K. Baruah
Design, Development and Testing of WaterpBased Co-Axial Blumlein Pulse Generator
Sanjay Singh, S. P. Nayak, Ashutosh Jaiswar, T. C. Kaushik, and Satish C. Gupta
Optimization of MgB2-Brass Joint Resistance for SST-1 Superconducting Magnet Current Leads
Upendra Prasad, V. L. Tanna, and S. Pradhan
Studies on Effect of Gaseous Quenching Media on Performance of Electrically Exploded Foils
S. P. Nayak, Ankur Chowdhury, M. D. Kale, T. C. Kaushik, and Satish C. Gupta
Particle Acceleration by Whistler Pulse in High Density Plasma
Punit Kumar, Abhisek Kumar Singh, and Shiv Singh
Generation of Terahertz Radiations by Flat Top Laser Pulses in Modulated Density Plasmas
Divya Singh and Hitendra K. Malik
Surface Modification of High Density Polyethylene and Polycarbonate by Atmospheric Pressure Cold Argon/Oxygen Plasma Jet
R. Shrestha, J. P Gurung, A. Shrestha, and D. P. Subedi
Optical Imaging of SST-1 Plasma
Manoj Kumar, Vishnu Chaudhary, Chestaparmar, Ajai Kumar, and SST-1 Team
Pulsed Electrical Exploding Wire For Production of Nanopowders
S. Borthakur, N. Talukdar, N.K. Neog, and T. K. Borthakur
