Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 10 OCTOBER 2001

Session GW1. GEC: Collisions with Molecules.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Ballroom C, Nittany Lion Inn

08:00 GW1.001 Studies of Low-energy Positron-molecule Interactions using Trap-based Beams
C. M. Surko (University of California, San Diego)
08:30 GW1.002 Electron-Driven Processes: From Single Collision Experiments to High-Pressure Discharge Plasmas
Kurt Becker (Stevens Institute of Technology)
09:00 GW1.003 A Comparison of Near-threshold Cross Sections for Electron and Positron Excitation of Atoms and Molecules
J. P. Sullivan, J. P. Marler, S. J. Gilbert, S. J. Buckman, C. M. Surko (University of California, San Diego)
09:15 GW1.004 Electron-Molecule Elastic Scattering via 3D FFT Computations
Merle E. Riley (Sandia National Labs), A. Burke Ritchie (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

Session GW2. GEC: Computational Methods for Plasmas.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Ballroom AB, Nittany Lion Inn

08:00 GW2.001 Self-consistent model and characteristics of power dissipation mechanism for rf biased electro-negative plasma sheath
Young D. Lee, J. J. Oh, Jai K. Shin (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology)
08:15 GW2.002 Negative ion injection to a wafer in a pulsed two frequency CCP in CF_4/Ar for SiO_2 etching*
~K. Maeshige, T. Yagisawa, T. Makabe (Keio University at Yokohama,~Japan)
08:30 GW2.003 Lattice Boltzmann simulations for technological plasma discharges
Richard Barrett, Declan Diver (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Glasgow, Scotland.)
08:45 GW2.004 Plasma modelling in the UMIST Magnetron device
R. Sobbia, J. Bradley, P.K. Browning (UMIST, Manchester, UK), M. Coppins, D. Zdravkovic (ICSTM, London, UK)
09:00 GW2.005 Four Dimensional Fokker-Planck Solver for Electron Kinetics in Gas Discharges
Vladimir Kolobov, H.Q. Yang, Robert Arslanbekov (CFD Research Corp.)
09:15 GW2.006 Results from the numerical modelling (for various laser pulsewidths) of laser-induced ablation and the subsequent plasma expansion
S. Laville, F. Vidal, M. Chaker, T.W. Johnston, B. Le Drogoff (INRS Energie et materiaux - QC - CANADA), O. Barthelemy, J. Margot (Universite de Montreal - QC - CANADA), M. Sabsabi (IMI - QC - CANADA)