Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 26 OCTOBER 3900

10:30 LR1.001 Upper Atmospheric Heating, Ionization and Optical Emissions Induced by Lightning Discharges

Umran Inan (Stanford University)

11:00 LR1.002 Lightning Initiation by Laser Radiation in an Atmosphere.

Oleg Sinkevich, Denis Geraasimov, Vasily Glazkov (Moscow Power Eng. Inst. (Technical University))

11:15 LR1.003 High-Pressure Unconditionally Stable Nonequilibrium Molecular Plasmas

Peter Palm, Elke Ploenjes, Igor Adamovich, J. William Rich (Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, 206 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210)

11:30 LR1.004 Simultaneous Remediation of NO_x and Oxidation of Soot Using Dielectric Barrier Discharges

Rajesh Dorai, Mark J. Kushner (University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign), Khaled Hassouni (LIMHP,CNRS-UPN,Villetaneuse,France)

11:45 LR1.005 Influence of Ethene on NO Removal in a Homogeneous Pulsed Discharge

F. Fresnet, G. Baravian, L. Magne, S. Pasquiers, C. Postel, V. Puech, A. Rousseau (LPGP, Université Paris-Sud / CNRS, France)

12:00 LR1.006 Removal of aqueous organic pollutants via pulsed-corona discharges

D. Hayashi, G. Dooms, W.F.L.M. Hoeben, E.M. van Veldhuizen, W.R. Rutgers, G.M.W. Kroesen (Eindhoven University of Technology)

10:30 LR2.001 Investigations on High-Frequency Gas Discharges by Laser Spectroscopic Electric Field Measurements

U. Czarnetzki (Institut für Laser- und Plasmaphysik, Universität GH Essen, D-45117, Germany)

11:00 LR2.002 Diagnostics of C_3 Radicals in High-Density C_4F_8 Plasmas by Laser-Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy

K. Sasaki, K. Takizawa, K. Kadota (Department of Electronics, Nagoya University, Japan)

11:15 LR2.003 PLIF Investigation of CF_2 in Fluorocarbon Etching Plasmas with and without Si Wafers

Kristen L. Steffens, Mark A. Sobolewski (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

11:30 LR2.004 Transport of particles in plasma expansion: a laser spectroscopic study

Stéphane MAZOUFFRE, Maarten Boogaarts, Richard Engeln, Daniel Schram (Eindhoven University of Technology, Dpt of Physics, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

11:45 LR2.005 Optical Tomography of the ICP-GEC RF Reference Cell

Eric Benck (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Kasra Etemadi (State University of New York at Buffalo)

12:00 LR2.006 Thomson scattering in fluorescent lamps

Leon Bakker, Gerrit Kroesen (Eindhoven University of Technology)