Plasma engineering applies the unique properties of plasmas (ionized gases) to improve processes and performance over many fields, such as materials processing, spacecraft propulsion, and nanofabrication. Plasma Engineering considers this rapidly expanding discipline from a unified standpoint, addressing fundamentals of physics and modeling as well as new real-word applications in aerospace, nanotechnology, and bioengineering.
The book starts by reviewing plasma particle collisions, waves, and instabilities, and proceeds to diagnostic tools, such as planar, spherical, and emissive probes, and the electrostatic analyzer, interferometric technique, and plasma spectroscopy. The physics of different types of electrical discharges are considered, including the classical Townsend mechanism of gas electrical breakdown and the Paschen law. Basic approaches and theoretical methodologies for plasma modeling are described, based on the fluid description of plasma solving numerically magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations and the kinetic model particle techniques that take into account kinetic interactions among particles and electromagnetic fields.
Readers are then introduced to the widest variety of applications in any text on the market. Space propulsion applications such as the Hall thruster, pulsed plasma thrusters, and microthruster are explained. Application of low-temperature plasmas in nanoscience and nanotechnology, another frontier in plasma physics, is covered, including plasma-based techniques for carbon-based nanoparticle synthesis (e.g., fundamental building blocks like single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene). Plasma medicine, an emerging field studying plasmas for therapeutic applications, is examined as well. The latest original results on cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) applications in medicine are presented, with a focus on the therapeutic potential of CAP with a in selective tumor cell eradication and signaling pathway deregulation.
1. Cover image 2. Title page 3. Table of Contents 4. Dedication 5. Copyright 6. Preface 7. Chapter 1. Plasma Concepts 8. Chapter 2. Plasma Diagnostics 9. Chapter 3. Electrical Discharges 10. Chapter 4. Plasma Dynamics 11. Chapter 5. Plasma in Space Propulsion 12. 5.1 Plasma in ablative plasma thrusters 13. 5.2 Bulk plasma and near-wall phenomena in Hall thruster 14. 5.3 Micropropulsion 15. 5.4 Plasma plumes from thrusters 16. Homework problems 17. References 18. Chapter 6. Plasma Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 19. Chapter 7. Plasma Medicine 20. Appendix. Physical Constants in SI 21. Index
Plasma engineering applies the unique properties of plasmas (ionized gases) to improve processes and performance over many fields, such as materials processing, spacecraft propulsion, and nanofabrication. Plasma Engineering considers this rapidly expanding discipline from a unified standpoint, addressing fundamentals of physics and modeling as well as new real-word applications in aerospace, nanotechnology, and bioengineering.
The book starts by reviewing plasma particle collisions, waves, and instabilities, and proceeds to diagnostic tools, such as planar, spherical, and emissive probes, and the electrostatic analyzer, interferometric technique, and plasma spectroscopy. The physics of different types of electrical discharges are considered, including the classical Townsend mechanism of gas electrical breakdown and the Paschen law. Basic approaches and theoretical methodologies for plasma modeling are described, based on the fluid description of plasma solving numerically magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations and the kinetic model particle techniques that take into account kinetic interactions among particles and electromagnetic fields.
Readers are then introduced to the widest variety of applications in any text on the market. Space propulsion applications such as the Hall thruster, pulsed plasma thrusters, and microthruster are explained. Application of low-temperature plasmas in nanoscience and nanotechnology, another frontier in plasma physics, is covered, including plasma-based techniques for carbon-based nanoparticle synthesis (e.g., fundamental building blocks like single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene). Plasma medicine, an emerging field studying plasmas for therapeutic applications, is examined as well. The latest original results on cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) applications in medicine are presented, with a focus on the therapeutic potential of CAP with a in selective tumor cell eradication and signaling pathway deregulation.
1. Cover image 2. Title page 3. Table of Contents 4. Dedication 5. Copyright 6. Preface 7. Chapter 1. Plasma Concepts 8. Chapter 2. Plasma Diagnostics 9. Chapter 3. Electrical Discharges 10. Chapter 4. Plasma Dynamics 11. Chapter 5. Plasma in Space Propulsion 12. 5.1 Plasma in ablative plasma thrusters 13. 5.2 Bulk plasma and near-wall phenomena in Hall thruster 14. 5.3 Micropropulsion 15. 5.4 Plasma plumes from thrusters 16. Homework problems 17. References 18. Chapter 6. Plasma Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 19. Chapter 7. Plasma Medicine 20. Appendix. Physical Constants in SI 21. Index
