Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 11 OCTOBER 2001

13:15 NR1.001 Submillimeter Absorption Spectroscopy of the ICP-GEC Reference Cell

Eric Benck, Guerman Golubyatnikov, Gerald Fraser (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

13:30 NR1.002 Negative Ion Detection Using Laser Thomson Scattering Combined with Laser Photodetachment

A. Kono, J. Ohno, H. Funahashi (Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan)

13:45 NR1.003 Laser Thomson scattering in Ar and N_2 gas plasmas.

Catherine Thompson, Philip Steen, Gary Craig, Tom Morrow, Bill Graham (Dept. of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.)

14:00 NR1.004 Time-resolved Thomson Laser Scattering Measurements in Argon Plasma Jets

Gianluca Gregori, Uwe Kortshagen, Joachim Heberlein, Emil Pfender (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota)

14:15 NR1.005 Plasma Etch Endpoint and Fault Detection Along with UV-Vis Absorption Spectroscopy from a Single Compact Solid State Detector.

Harold Anderson (Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico.), Steve Gunther, Bob Fry (CETAC Technologies)

14:30 NR1.006 Oxide Etch Behavior in an Inductively Coupled C4F8 Discharge Characterized by Diode Laser Spectroscopy.

Harold Anderson, Marcus Barela, Geoff Courtin (Affiliation), Karla Waters (Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, Univ. of New Mexico)

14:45 NR1.007 Diagnostics of c-C_4F_8 Plasma in an Inductively Coupled GEC Reference Plasma Reactor

Bing Ji, Stephen Motika, Eugene Karwacki (Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.)

15:00 NR1.008 Complementary optical diagnostics of noble gas plasmas

D.J. Smith, R.S. Stewart (Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Strathclyde)

13:15 NR2.001 Physics and chemistry in glow dielectric barrier discharges

Françoise Massines (CNRS - LGET)

13:45 NR2.002 HIGH SPEED CAMERA IMAGING AND OTHER DIAGNOSTICS OF DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGES AT ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE

Ion Radu, Farhad Miralai, Gregory Czeremuszkin (1), Raymond Bartnikas (2), Michael R. Wertheimer (1), (1)Department of Engineering Physics Collaboration, (2)Hydro-Québec Research Institute Collaboration

14:00 NR2.003 Study of different discharge regimes in a dielectric barrier discharge: electrical and optical characterization

Lorenzo Mangolini, Konstantin Orlov, Uwe Kortshagen, Joachim Heberlein, Ulrich Kogelschatz (University of Minnesota -- Mechanical Engineering)

14:15 NR2.004 Firing time jitter in a single pixel ac Plasma Display Panel

Mike Brown, Woo-Geun Lee, Alvin D. Compaan (The University of Toledo), Jerry Schermerhorn (Electro Plasma, Inc.)

14:30 NR2.005 Effects of cell geometry and sustain voltage waveform shape on the efficiency of plasma display panels

Georgios Veronis, Umran Inan (Stanford University)

14:45 NR2.006 Dispersion of low Mach number shock waves in a dielectric barrier discharge.

P. Bletzinger (ISSI), B.N. Ganguly (Air Force Research Laboratory), A. Garscadden (Air Force Research LAboratory)

15:00 NR2.007 Time-Resolved Emission Spectroscopy of High-Pressure Discharge Plasmas in Ne and Ne/H2 Gas Mixtures

Peter Kurunczi (Stevens Institute of Technology; now with Plasmion Corp.), Kurt Becker (Stevens Institute of Technology)

15:15 NR2.008 Electric Impedance Measurement and Pulsed OPO Laser Induced Fluorescence Study of Capacitively Coupled VHF Plasma (He/CF_4/O_2) at Atmospheric Pressure for Chemical Vaporization Machining (CVM) Process

Yasushi Oshikane, Shoichi Kawashima, Kenichi Takemoto, Kazuya Yamamura, Katsuyoshi Endo, Yuzo Mori (Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University)