Program overview

TUESDAY EVENING, 5 OCTOBER 1999

ETP1.01 Low-Energy Electron Scattering from Nitrous Oxide

Robert Gulley, Jennifer Gibson, Stephen Buckman (Australian National University)

ETP1.02 Electron-Impact Excitation of Nitric Oxide

R. Scott Schappe, Robert Edgell, Andrew Kucheriavy, Steve Williams (Lake Forest College)

ETP1.03 Analysis of Optical Emissions Following Electron Impact on C2F6

K.E. Martus (William Paterson University, Wayne, USA), P. Kurunczi, K. Becker (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA)

ETP1.04 Total and elastic cross sections of CF3I by electron and positron impacts

Mineo Kimura, Osamu Sueoka, Akira Hamada (Yamaguchi University), Hiroshi Tanaka, Masashi Kitajima (Sophia University)

ETP1.05 Measurement of Total Electron Scattering Cross Sections for SO2

M.E. Johnston, J.A. Berger, J.P. Heggemeier, T.M. Klein (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN)

ETP1.06 Electron Interactions with SF_6

Loucas Christophorou, James Olthoff, Ralph Siegel (NIST), Makoto Hayashi (GEI, Japan), Yoshiharu Nakamura (Keio University, Japan)

ETP1.07 Electron Collisions with Hexafluorobenzene, C_6F_6

Carl Winstead, Vincent McKoy (California Institute of Technology), Marcio H. F. Bettega (Universidade Federal do Paraná)

ETP1.08 Effects of Molecular Vibrational Excitation in Low Pressure Processing Discharges

W.L. Morgan (Kinema Research amp; Software, L.L.C.)

ETP1.09 Dissociation Cross Sections for C2F6, c-C4F8, C3F8, CHF3, and TEOS

W.L. Morgan (Kinema Research amp; Software, L.L.C.)

ETP1.10 Electron Impact Dissociation of Silane and Methane Probed by Laser-Induced Fluorescence Techniques

N. Abramzon, K. Becker (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA), K.E. Martus (William Paterson University, Wayne, USA)

ETP1.11 Electron-Impact Ionization of C2F6 and C2F5

V. Tarnovsky, K. Becker (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA), H. Deutsch (Univ. Greifswald, Germany), R. Basner, M. Schmidt (INP Greifswald, Germany)

ETP1.12 Electron-Impact Ionization of TiClx (x=1-4)

V. Tarnovsky, K. Becker (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA), H. Deutsch (Univ. Greifswald, Germany), R. Basner, M. Schmidt (INP Greifswald, Germany)

ETP1.13 Total Ionization Cross Sections of WF_\hboxx, x=1-5, Determined Using RECP

Winifred Huo (NASA Ames Research Center)

ETP1.14 Magnetic and Electric Field Induced Enhancements In Laser Induced Anion Formation

Kannadaguli Nagesha (ORNL), Lal Pinnaduwage (ORNL/UT)

ETP1.15 Ionization of Trimethylgallium

C. Q. Jiao (Mobium Enterprises, Inc., Dayton, OH), Jr. DeJoseph, A. Garscadden (Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH)

ETP1.16 Comparative studies of dissociative electron attachment to methyl halides

R.S. Wilde, G.A. Gallup, I.I. Fabrikant (University of Nebraska)

ETP1.17 Stability and Electron Loss Rate Control in Optically Pumped Plasmas

E. Ploenjes, P. Palm, I.V. Adamovich, J.W. Rich (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1107)

ETP2.18 Ion-Molecule Reactions in CHF_3 Discharges

B. L. Peko (University of Denver), I. V. Dyakov, R. L. Champion (College of William and Mary), M. V. V. S. Rao (NASA/Ames), J. K. Olthoff (NIST)

ETP2.19 Gas-Phase Ion-Molecule Reactions in Perfluoropropane

C. Q. Jiao, P. D. Haaland (Mobium Enterprises, Inc., Dayton, OH), Jr. DeJoseph, A. Garscadden (Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH)

ETP2.20 Electron Capture in Proton Collisions with CO.

P. C. Stancil, D. R. Schultz (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), M. Kimura (Yamaguchi Univ., Japan), J.-P. Gu, G. Hirsch, R. J. Buenker, Y. Li (University of Wuppertal, Germany)

ETP2.21 Electron capture in collisions of Si4+ ions with He atoms below 1 keV/u

Mineo Kimura (Yamaguchi University), Reiko Suzuki (Hitotsubashi University), Ayako Watanabe (Ochanomizui University), Hiroshi Sato (Ochanomizu University), Phil Stancil (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jian-ping Gu, Gerhard Hirsch, Robert J. Buenker (Universitaet Wuppertal)

ETP2.22 Reactions of O^+ with N_2 and NO: recoil velocity measurements in a guided-ion beam experiment

Dale Levandier, Yu-Hui Chiu (Boston College, Newton, MA 02159), Steve Pullins, Rainer Dressler (Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731)

ETP2.23 Spectroscopy of Na + Noble Gas Mixtures: Precise Measurements of Absorption Cross-Section

Max Shurgalin, Jim Babb, Hyun-Kyung Chung (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge MA 02138, USA), Walter Lapatovich (Osram Sylvania Central Research, Beverly, MA 01915, USA)

ETP2.24 A bi-dimensional model of a Cu-HBr laser plasma.

Frédéric Girard, Erick Le Guyadec (CEA)

ETP2.25 Initial energy dependence of EED in PDP Cell

T. Fukuyama, H. Itoh (Chiba Inst. of Tech.)

ETP2.26 A Determination of the Symmetric Charge Transfer Cross Sections for Ar^+ and Xe^+ at Ion Thruster Conditions.

Steve Pullins (Air Force Research Laboratory), Dale Levandier, Yu-Hui Chiu (Boston College), Rainer Dressler (Air Force Research Laboratory)

ETP3.27 Solutions to the Spatially Inhomogeneous Boltzmann Equation in Rare Gases and Rare Gas-Molecular Gas Mixtures

Wm. F. Bailey, C. G. Smithtro (Air Force Institute of Technology)

ETP3.28 DC Plasma Column Kinetics in a Longitudinal Magnetic Field

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

ETP3.29 An Efficient Discretization Scheme to Solve the Spatially Inhomogeneous Electron Boltzmann Equation

C. Punset, L.L. Alves (CFP, IST (Portugal)), G. Gousset (LPGP,Univ.Paris-Sud (France)), C.M. Ferreira (CFP, IST (Portugal))

ETP3.30 Abnormal-glow discharges in Ar: Experiments and models.

A. V. Phelps (JILA, CU and NIST)

ETP3.31 Electron Density and Temperature Measurements in an Atmospheric Pressure Air Plasma by Heterodyne Interferometry

Frank Leipold, Robert H. Stark, Ahmed El-Habachi, Karl H. Schoenbach (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529)

ETP3.32 Cd-Ne DC glow discharge: an efficient source of UV radiation

Tsvetelina Petrova (University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria), Alexander Ogoyski (Technical University, Varna, Bulgaria), George Petrov (University of Montral, Montreal, Canada), Alexander Blagoev (University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria)

ETP3.33 ArF Excimer Emission from Microhollow Cathode Discharges

Wenhui Shi, Ahmed El-Habachi, Karl H. Schoenbach (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529)

ETP3.34 Electron Temparature Control in an MMT RF Plasma

Tetsuji Shimizu, Yunlong Li, Kohgi Kato, Satoru Iizuka, Noriyoshi Sato (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tohoku University,Sendai 980-8579, Japan)

ETP3.35 Influence of Gas Composition on the Dissociative Excitation Rate of CO_2 in RF Discharges

T. Dinh, S. Popovi\'c, R. L. Ash, L. Vu\vskovi\'c (Old Dominion U., Norfolk, VA)

ETP3.36 2D+1 PIC-MCC Modelling in a capacitive RF GEC cell

E Costa i Bricha, C.M.O. Mahony, P.G. Steen, W.G. Graham (Dept. of Pure and Applied Physics, The Queen’s University of Belfast, BT7 INN, Northern Ireland.)

ETP3.37 Object Oriented Monte Carlo Multi Dimensional Simulations of Parallel Plate Capacitively Coupled Discharges

I Horie (Hokkaido Inst. of Technology), Y Ohmori (Sapporo Univ.), PLG Ventzek (Motorola Inc.), K Kitamori (Hokkaido Inst. of Technology)

ETP3.38 Sampling and Statistics Issues in Parallelized Java Object Oriented Monte Carlo Simulations

T Suzuki (Hokkaido Inst. of Technology), S Nakamura (Hokkaido Polytechnic Coll.), PLG Ventzek (Motorola Inc.), K Kitamori (Hokkaido Inst. of Technology)

ETP3.39 An Investigation of Selective Promotion of Electron-Molecule Reactions by Impulse Field Electron Acceleration

H. Sugawara, T. Shimoda, Y. Sakai (Hokkaido University, Japan)

ETP3.40 Automated Sensor for 3-D Reconstruction of Optical Emission from RF Plasmas

Corey Collard, S. Shannon, M. L. Brake, James Paul Holloway (University of Michigan)

ETP3.41 Mass spectrometric investigations of ionic species in rf discharges in CHF_3, C_2F_6, C_4F_8, and their mixtures with Ar

Yicheng Wang, Martin Misakian, James Olthoff (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

ETP3.42 Parametric Study of the Radial Contraction of Atmospheric Pressure Discharges Sustained by Surface Waves

Y. Kabouzi (Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec), M.D. Calzada (Departamento de fisica aplicada, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain), M. Moisan, K.C. Tran (Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec), C. Trassy (EPM-Madylam, ENSHMG, France)

ETP3.43 Laser Scattering Diagnostics of a Microwave Discharge Plasma

S. Narishige, S. Tokuyama, M. A. Mansour, M. D. Bowden, K. Uchino, K. Muraoka (Kyushu University), T. Sakoda (Kitakyushu National College of Technology), J. Khachan, B. W. James (University of Sydney)

ETP3.44 Inductive Electromotive Force Measurements in Inductively Coupled Plasma

Ken-Ichi Takagi, Kazuki Iwatani, Yukinori Kuroki (Kyushu University, Japan)

ETP3.45 EEDFs Measured in Ar-Electronegative Gas ICP Discharges

C.M.O. Mahony (Dept of Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland), O.A. Okpalugo (Electrical amp; Electronic Engineering Dept., University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland), W.G. Graham (Dept of Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland), S. Laverty, P.D. Maguire (Electrical amp; Electronic Engineering Dept., University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland)

ETP3.46 RF Electric Field and Current Density Measurements in an Inductive discharge with a \dotB Probe: Experimental Evidence of Collisionless Heating Mechanisms

G. Cunge (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France), B. Crowley, D. Vender, M. M. Turner (Dublin City University, Ireland)

ETP3.47 On Nonlinear Effects in Inductively Coupled Plasmas

A. I. Smolyakov, V. Godyak, I. Khabibrakhmanov, A. Duffy (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon S7N 5E2 Canada)

ETP3.48 Influence of varying dielectric window thickness on the relative inductive and capacitive coupling in a planar ICP

M. Watanabe, H. Uchiyama, D. M. Shaw, G. J. Collins (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80523)

ETP3.49 Effect of bounce resonance heating on electron energy distribution function

Chin-Wook Chung, Sang-Hun Seo, Hong-Young Chang

ETP3.50 Evolution of the electron energy distribution function in planar inductive discharges using rare gases

Sang-Hun Seo, S. S. Kim, Jung-In Hong, C. S. Chang, Hong-Young Chang (Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon 305--701, South Korea), N. S. Yoon (Korea Basic Science Institute, Taejon 305--333, South Korea)

ETP3.51 Characterization of Inductively Coupled Discharges in C2F6 and CHF3

Greg Hebner (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM)

ETP3.52 Negative ion boundary layers in Inductively Coupled Plasmas

Peter Vitello (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

ETP3.53 Experimental Observations of Instability in Inductive Discharges

G. Cunge (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France), M. M. Turner, B. Crowley, D. Vender (Dublin City University, Ireland)

ETP3.54 RF Current Density Measurements and Mode Coupling in Helicon Discharges

T.G. Madziwa, D.D. Blackwell, D. Arnush, F.F. Chen (Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA)

ETP3.55 VUV-Emission from He-Xe-Glow Discharges

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

ETP3.56 Electron transport in rf E(t)\times B(t) fields in argon

Z.M. Raspopovi\'c, S. Sakad\vzi\'c, Z.Lj. Petrovi\'c (Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.)

ETP4.57 Longitudinal Microhollow Cathode Discharge Arrays

A. El-Dakrouri, A. El-Habachi, R.H. Stark, K.H. Schoenbach (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529)

ETP4.58 Pulsed Operation of Microhollow Cathode Discharge Excimer Sources

M. Moselhy, A. El-Habachi, K.H. Schoenbach (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529)

ETP4.59 Influence of the Electrode Geometry on Microhollow Cathode Discharges

O. Bilwatsch, U. Ernst, K. Frank (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Physics Department I, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany)

ETP4.60 Investigation of Plasma Attachment Modes in a Metal Halide High Intensity Discharge Lamp

Helmar G. Adler (OSRAM Sylvania Inc., Research and Development, 71 Cherry Hill Dive, Beverly MA 01915)

ETP4.61 Optical emission spectroscopy of the electrode region in metal halide lamps

Douglas Doughty (Osram Sylvania)

ETP4.62 Investigation of Temperature and Density Profiles in the Electrode Region of High-Pressure Sodium Lamps

Manfred Kettlitz, Rico Grossjohann (Institute of Low-Temperature Plasma Physics, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Str. 19, D-17489 Greifswald, Germany)

ETP4.63 Simulating the Sulphur Lamp with PLASIMO, a plasma simulation model.

C.W Johnston, H. van der Heijden, Jan van Dijk, van der Mullen Joost (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

ETP4.64 Theoretical studies of pressure broadening of alkali-metal-rare-gas mixtures.

H-K. Chung, M. Shurgalin, J.F. Babb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

ETP5.65 Turbulent Cooling of an After-Spark Channel with a Residual Current

Mikhail N. Shneider (Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University)

ETP5.66 A more correct model for the primary-and-secondary streamer phenomena in short air gap

Yu.V. Shcherbakov, A.V. Shilova (High Voltage Research Center of All-Russian Electrotechnical Institute, Krasnaya Gorka, Russia)

ETP6.67 Control of Strongly-Coupled Fine-Particle Flow in a DC Discharge Plasma

Giichiro Uchida, Ryoichi Ozaki, Satoru Iizuka, Noriyoshi Sato (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan)

ETP6.68 Behavior of a particle in plasma-wall sheath region

Y. Watanabe, M. Shiratani, K. Koga, A. Hatae, A. Toyozawa (Kyushu University, Japan)

ETP6.69 Growth suppression of cluster-size particles in silane rf discharges

Y. Watanabe, M. Shiratani, K. Koga, S. Maeda, Y. Matuoka, K. Tanaka (Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan)

ETP6.70 Production of Free Electrons from Particulates in a Flowing Gas

J. Lilly, A. White, W.C. Lee, W. Lempert, V.V. Subramaniam (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210)

ETP7.71 Emission Characteristics in a Pulsed Microwave Discharge Containing Hydrogen

N. Lang, J. Röpcke (Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik, 17489 Greifswald, Germany), M. Kalatchev, B.P. Lavrov (Faculty of Physics, St.-Petersburg State University, 198904 St. Petersburg, Russia)

ETP7.72 Spatial and Temporal Monitoring of Active Species in C_7F_16 Vapor Discharges

C. P. Lungu, A. M. Lungu (Hokkaido Univ., Japan (on leave from Nat. Inst. of Laser, Plasma and Rad. Phys., Romania)), Y. Sakai, H. Sugawara (Hokkaido Univ.)

ETP7.73 Three dimensional profiles of a pulsed inductively coupled plasma in Ar and CF_4/Ar

K. Hioki, N. Itazu, N. Nakano, T. Makabe (Keio University, Japan)

ETP7.74 Scectroscopic measurements of electron temperature and density using a collisional radiative model

Roger D. Bengtson, M. L. Huebschman (The University of Texas at Austin), Vivek Bakshi (Sematech), J. Terry, Bruce Lipshultz (MIT), Keiji Sawada (Shinshu University)

ETP7.75 Calibration of Electric Field Induced Energy Level Shifts in Argon

Greg Hebner (Sandia National Laboratories)

ETP7.76 Studies of a sheath structure in an RF discharge using experimental, analytical and simulation approaches

J. B. Kim, K. Kawamura, M. D. Bowden, K. Muraoka (Kyushu University, Japan), Y. W. Choi (Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Korea)

ETP7.77 Thomson scattering with an ICCD detector for measurements of EEDF in rf discharge plasmas

S. Moshkalyov, C. Thompson, T. Morrow, W. Graham (Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK)

ETP7.78 Efficient Thomson Scattering Measurement System for the Diagnostics of Processing Plasmas

Akihiro Kono, Keigo Nakatani (Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan)

ETP7.79 Time and Space resolved LIF-Spectroscopy of atomic species in a Dielectric Barrier Discharge

Ch. Lukas, M. Spaan, V. Schulz-von der Gathen, H.F. Döbele (Universität GH Essen, Institut für Laser- und Plasmaphysik, 45117 Essen, Germany)

ETP7.80 Optical Measurements of Atomic and Molecular Species in a Pulsed RF Discharge in Nitrogen

S. F. Adams, Jr. DeJoseph (Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH), T. A. Miller (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH)

ETP7.81 The Effect of Electrode Gap on CF_2 Distribution in Fluorocarbon Plasmas

Kristen L. Steffens, Mark Sobolewski (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD)

ETP7.82 Measurement of atomic hydrogen in silane plasmas used for the deposition of a-Si:H films

Toshinori Kajiwara, Kiichirou Uchino, Katsunori Muraoka, Tatsuo Okada, Mitsuo Maeda (Kyushu University, Japan)

ETP7.83 Hydrogen Dissociation in a H_2-N_2 Pulsed DC Glow Discharge

J.M. Williamson (Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc., Dayton, OH), B.N. Ganguly (Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH)

ETP7.84 Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy of Etching Plasmas

Jean-Paul Booth (Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique, Universite J.Fourier-Grenoble, France), Gilles Cunge, Ludovic Biennier, Daniele Romanini, Alexander Katachanov (LSP)

ETP7.85 Measurement of Atomic Species in High-Density Reactive Plasmas using Vacuum Ultraviolet Absorption Spectroscopy with High Pressure Microdischarge Hollow Cathode Lamp

Seigou Takashima, Masaru Hori, Akihiro Kono, Toshio Goto (Nagoya University), Masafumi Ito (Wakayama University), Katsumi Yoneda (Nippon Laser amp; Electronics LAB.)

ETP7.86 Higher Order Diffusion of the Helium Triplet Metastable Measured by Diode Laser Absorption

Michael Millard, Perry Yaney (University of Dayton), Biswa Ganguly, Jr. DeJoseph (Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH)

ETP7.87 Laser Absorption Measurement of Atomic Oxygen Concentrations in a dc Corona Discharge

Maria-Antoaneta Bratescu, Mitsuyuki Ohkubo, Takahiro Kamada, Yosuke Sakai (Hokkaido University, Japan)

ETP7.88 CF2 Detection in Radio-Frequency Ar/CHF3 Plasmas by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

J. S. Kim, M. V. V. S. Rao, M. A. Cappelli, S. P. Sharma (NASA-Ames Research Center)

ETP7.89 Nitrogen CARS Thermometry Within the Outer Jacket of a Metal Halide Lamp

Lori R. Brock, Helmar Adler (OSRAM Sylvania Inc.)

ETP7.90 Raman Measurements of N2, CO, and O2 Vibrational State Distributions In Laser-Sustained, High Pressure Non-Equilibrium Discharges

W. Lee, I.V. Adamovich, W. Lempert (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210)

ETP7.91 Atomic Cu Densities from Optical Absorption by the Curve of Growth Method

I. C. Abraham, Y. Andrew, S. Lu, T. G. Snodgrass, J. H. Booske, A. E. Wendt (C-PAM, UW-Madison)

ETP7.92 RF-conductivity method to study Resonance Enhanced Multiphoton Ionization (REMPI).

Rainer Johnsen, Miroslaw P. Skrzypkowski, Richard Rosati, Barun K. Chatterjee (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)

ETP7.93 Optical Diagnostic Characterization of Laser and Electron Beam Ablation Plasma Plumes

R.M. Gilgenbach, S.D. Kovaleski, M.D. Johnston (Intense Energy Beam Interaction Laboratory, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department, University of Michigan)