Program overview

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 21 OCTOBER 2003

15:30 FT1.001 Overview of our recent experiments and thoughts about plasma presheaths

Noah Hershkowitz, Eunsuk Ko, Xu Wang (University of Wisconsin - Madison, Engineering Physics Dept.), Greg Servern (University of San Diego - San Diego, Physics Dept.)

15:45 FT1.002 Generalising Planar, Cylindrical and Spherical Diodes for Non-Zero Potential Gradient

Orson Sutherland, Adrian Ankiewicz, Rod Boswell (Plasma Research Laboratory, RSPhysSE, Australian National University)

16:00 FT1.003 Plasma-Sheath Model with Diffuse Electron Boundary

Natalia Sternberg (Clarke University), Valery Godyak (OSRAM SYLVANIA)

16:15 FT1.004 Analytical Model of a Dual Frequency Capacitive Sheath

P. C. Boyle, J. Robiche, M. M. Turner, A. R. Ellingboe (Dublin City University, Ireland)

16:30 FT1.005 Collisional sheath dynamics in the intermediate rf frequency regime

Nong Xiang, Frank.L. Waelbroeck (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas)

16:45 FT1.006 Structure of electric field in sheath and presheath regions of a low-pressure ICP Ar plasma measured by laser-induced fluorescence-dip spectroscopy

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

17:00 FT1.007 Analytical and numerical study of the cathode sheath formation in a high-pressure discharge for XeCl laser

Belasri Ahmed (Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Matériaux Conducteurs et leurs ApplicationsU.S.T.O Faculté des Sciences. Département de Physique U.S.T.O El M'NAOUR B.P. 1505 Oran algeria)

17:15 FT1.008 A different way of looking at the Plasma-Sheath Boundary Region

Raoul Franklin (Oxford Research Unit, The Open University, Oxford, England)

15:30 FT2.001 On Plasma Chemistry in H_2-Ar-N_2-Microwave Discharges with Admixtures of Methane or Methanol

F. Hempel, D. Loffhagen, L. Mechold, J. Röpcke (Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik, Greifswald, Germany), P.B. Davies (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK)

15:45 FT2.002 Hydrogen Generation in a Microhollow Cathode Discharge in an Atmospheric-Pressure Ammonia-Argon Mixture

Hongwei Qui (Stevens Institute of Technology), K. Martus (William Paterson University), W. Lee, K. Becker (Stevens Institute of Technology)

16:00 FT2.003 Numerical Simulation of Dielectric Barrier Discharge of Atmospheric Air

Ning Zhou (nz@cfdrc.com, CFD Research Crop), R Arslanbekov, V Kolobov (CFD Research Corp)

16:15 FT2.004 Characterization of an Aluminum Laser-Induced Plasma at Low Fluence in Ambient Air with Time and Spatial Resolution

Olivier Barthélemy, Joëlle Margot (Groupe de physique des plasmas, Université de Montréal), Mohamed Chaker (INRS-Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications), Mohamad Sabsabi (Industrial Materials Institute NRC), Tudor W. Johnston, Stéphane Laville, Boris Le Drogoff, Francois Vidal (INRS-Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications)

16:30 FT2.005 Combustion Enhancement Using a Silent Discharge Plasma Reactor

Louis Rosocha, David Platts, Don Coates, Sy Stange (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:45 FT2.006 Power and Air Chemistry Simulations for Plasma Continuously Generated by an Electron Beam with a Sustaining Electric Field

Robert Vidmar (University of Nevada, Reno), Kenneth Stalder (Stalder Technologies and Research)

17:00 FT2.007 Simulation of O_2(^1\Delta) yields in mixtures of O_2 and inert gases in low pressure plasmas

D. Shane Stafford (Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois), Mark J. Kushner (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois)

17:15 FT2.008 EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES ON SINGLET DELTA OXYGEN PRODUCTION IN ELECTRON-BEAM SUSTAINED DISCHARGE

Anatoly Napartovich, Igor Kochetov (RSC TRINITI, Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia), Mikhail Frolov, Andrey Ionin, Yuri Klimachev, Andrey Kotkov, Yuri Podmarkov, Leonid Seleznev, Dmitry Sinitsyn, Nikolay Vagin, Nikolay Yuryshev (Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia), Gordon Hager (AFRL, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5776, USA), TRINITI Collaboration, Lebedev Collaboration, AFRL Collaboration