1C  Basic Phenomena (oral)

Monday, June 21  9:45-12:15  Hampton Rds I-II-III

Session Chair:  WeiDong Zhu

9:45  1C-1  (invited) QUANTUM MECHANICS OF ELECTRONS AT PLASMA BOUNDARIES

F. X. Bronold, R. L. Heinisch, J. Marbach, H. Fehske

University Greifswald, Institute of Physics, Greifswald, Germany

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10:15  1C-2 RF BREAKDOWN IN LOW PRESSURE GASES IN SMALL (MILLIMETRIC) GAPS WITH NON-PLANAR SURFACES

B. Legradic, A. Howling, C. Hollenstein

Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

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10:30  1C-3 EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF THE ROLE OF ION-ION INSTABILITY IN DETERMINING ION LOSS FROM A TWO-SPECIES PLASMA

N. Hershkowitz1, C. -S. Yip1, G. D. Severn2

1Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States
2Physics, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States

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10:45  1C-4 DIODE LASER ABSORPTION AND EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY OF A STREAMER DISCHARGE IN AN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMA JET

B. L. Sands1, R. J. Leiweke1, B. N. Ganguly2

1UES, Inc., Dayton, OH, United States
2Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH, United States

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11:00  1C-5 INITIAL LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS IN THE MADHEX EXPANSION CHAMBER AND ELECTRON TEMPERATURE SCALING WITH PULSED RF POWER

M. D. Wiebold, J. E. Scharer

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States

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11:15  1C-6 TIME-RESOLVED PLASMA PROPERTIES AND EEDFS FROM A RAPIDLY SWEPT 1-MHZ LANGMUIR PROBE

R. B. Lobbia, A. D. Gallimore

Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

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11:30  1C-7 NON-EQUILIBRIUM PLASMA IN LIQUID WATER: DYNAMICS OF GENERATION AND QUENCHING

Y. Yang, Y. I. Cho, A. Fridman, A. Starikovskiy

A. J. Drexel Plasma Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States

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11:45  1C-8 AN AB INITIO APPROXIMATION FOR THE MODIFIED PASCHENS CURVE FOR BREAKDOWN IN MICROSCALE ELECTRODE GAPS

D. B. Go, R. Tirumala

Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States

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