Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 9 OCTOBER 1997

10:15 QR1.01 Dissociation of Highly Excited Molecules

Yoshihiko Hatano (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

10:45 QR1.02 Computational Study of Electron-Molecule Collisions Related to Low-Temperature Plasmas.

Winifred M. Huo (NASA Ames Research Center)

11:15 QR1.03 Progress in Computational Electron-Molecule Collisions

TN Rescigno (LLNL)

11:45 QR1.04 Semiempirical Theory of Dissociative Electron Attachment to CH_3Cl and CF_3Cl Molecules

R.S. Wilde (), I.I. Fabrikant (Univ. of Nebraska)

12:00 QR1.05 Electron Attachment to Radicals and Highly-Excited States in Laser-Irradiated CCl_2F_2*

Lal Pinnaduwage (), Panos Datskos (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

12:15 QR1.06 Electron Attachment to Laser-Excited Cl_2 molecules^#

Panos Datskos, Lal Pinnaduwage (Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

10:15 QR2.01 Helicons, the Early Years

R.W. Boswell (RSPhysSE, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, >Australia)

10:30 QR2.02 Helicons, the Past Decade

F.F. Chen (Electrical Engineering Department, University of Californai, Los >Angeles, California)

10:45 QR2.03 Very High Density Helicon Mode Operation in WOMBAT

A.W. Degeling (RSPhysSE, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia)

11:00 QR2.04 Characteristics of M=0 Helicon Wave Plasmas in Reactive Gas Environment

S. Miyake, Y. Setsuhara, Y. Sakawa, T. Shoji (JWRI, Osaka University, Osaka Japan ^\ast\!Nagoya University, Nagoya Japan)

11:15 QR2.05 Maximum density plasma production with helicon wave excitation

D.G. Miljak, F.F. Chen (UCLA)

11:30 QR2.06 Surface waves: A tool for producing plasmas from sub-millitorr to atmosphere

Joelle Margot (Groupe de Physique des Plasmas, Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada)

12:00 QR2.07 High- and Low-Density Modes in a Large-Area Surface-Wave Sustained Plasma Source

I. Ghanashev, M. Nagatsu, S. Morita, H. Sugai (Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagoya University)

12:15 QR2.08 High-Density Plasma Generation by Surface Waves Excited on Metal-Plasma Interface

Hideo Sugai, Ivan Ghanashev, Masaaki Nagatsu (Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagoya University)