Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 24 OCTOBER 2003

10:00 WF1.001 Measurement of Electrical Fields Around Dissimilar Materials Exposed to a Discharge

E. V. Barnat, G. A. Hebner (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:15 WF1.002 Reactive Ion Etching of SiC in SF_6/He Plasmas

Ramakanth Alapati, Karen J Nordheden (Plasma Research Laboratory, Chemical amp; Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS-66045.)

10:30 WF1.003 Collisional Excitation and De-Excitation of N2 and N2+ in a High-Pressure Cylindrical Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma

K Martus (William Paterson University), N Masoud, K Becker (Stevens Institute of Technology)

10:45 WF1.004 Sensitive Detection of Singlet O2 via the Noxon System

Skip Williams (Air Force Research Laboratory), Manish Gupta, Thomas Owano, Doug Baer, Anthony O'Keefe (Los Gatos Research, Inc.), David Yarkony, Spiridoula Matsika (Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University), Air Force Research Laboratory Collaboration, Los Gatos Research Collaboration, Department of Chemistry Collaboration

11:00 WF1.005 Attractive Interactions Between Negatively Charged Dust Particles in a Plasma

Greg Hebner, Merle Riley (Sandia National Laboratories)

11:15 WF1.006 On Quantitative Detection of Methyl Radicals in Non-Equilibrium Plasmas by Absorption Spectroscopic Techniques

J. Röpcke, G.D. Stancu, F. Hempel (Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik, Greifswald, Germany), G. Lombardi, A. Gicquel (LIMHP-CNRS, Université Paris 13, Villetaneuse, France)

11:30 WF1.007 Optical Time Modulation Spectroscopy in RF-Discharges

Uwe Czarnetzki, Victor Kadetov (Institut für Plasma- und Atomphysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)

10:00 WF2.001 Low-Pressure Xenon Positive Column Plasmas for Lighting Purpose: a Model Investigation

Dirk Uhrlandt (Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik, Greifswald, Germany)

10:30 WF2.002 Calculations of Electron Collision Cross Sections for Lighting Applications

Klaus Bartschat (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Drake University, Des Moines, IA 50311, USA)

11:00 WF2.003 Measurement of the conductivity of the luminous high-pressure plasmoids generated by microwave discharges of molecular vapors

Jin Joong Kim, Jung Tae Ko (Affiliation), Dong Ho Won (Dept of Optical Engineering, Sejong University), Jeong Won Kim (Taewon Lighting Ramp;D Laboratory)

11:15 WF2.004 Numerical modelling of stability limit of diffuse discharge on thermionic cathodes

M. S. Benilov, M. D. Cunha (Departamento de Fisica, Universidade da Madeira, Largo do Municipio, 9000 Funchal, Portugal)

11:30 WF2.005 Scaling of Microdischarge Devices: Pyramidal Structures

Mark J. Kushner (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engr., University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801)