Plasma Engineering: Applications from Aerospace to Bio and Nanotechnology - Softcover

Keidar, Michael

9780323282116: Plasma Engineering: Applications from Aerospace to Bio and Nanotechnology

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323282113 ISBN 13: 9780323282116

Publisher: Academic Press, 2016

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 signali

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Review:

"This is a very well written, accessible book on a usually very mathematically intensive subject...The text could be used for a graduate class in physics or material science...Professionals working in related plasma science fields would also find this book useful as an up-to-date source on the latest developments in plasma arc theory and related applications."--IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, May/June 2014

From the Back Cover:

This is the first textbook that addresses plasma engineering in the aerospace, nanotechnology, and bioengineering fields from a unified stand point.
It includes a large number of worked examples, end of chapter exercises, and historical perspectives.
Accompanying the text is plasma simulation software covering the Particle in Cell (PIC) approach.

Plasma Engineering is a textbook which covers the fundamentals of plasma physics at a level suitable for students using application examples. It contains the widest variety of applications of any text on the market, spanning the areas of aerospace engineering, nanotechnology, and nano-bioengineering.

This is a highly practically useful text for courses on Plasma Engineering or Plasma Physics in departments of Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Physics. It is also useful as an introduction to plasma engineering and its applications for early career researchers and practicing engineers.

About the Authors;

Michael Keidar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The George Washington University. He is Director of George Washington Institute for Nanotechnology. He is a Senior Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), member of the American Physical Society (APS) and a founding member of the International Society of Plasma Medicine (ISPM), and a member of AIAA Electric Propulsion Technical Committee (EP). The Micropropulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MpNL), was founded and directed by him. His research interest include plasma propulsion, plasma-based nanotechnology and medicine. He has authored over 130 journal papers, book chapter and 5 patents.

Isak Beilis is a Professor of the Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University. He is a Senior Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Member of Israel Plasma Sciences and Technology Association, Member of Israel Physical Society. Guest Editor of Special Issue of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE. His research interests include physical phenomena in high current electrical discharges, at the electrode surface and in the near electrode plasma, vacuum arc film deposition, ablation phenomena at solid-plasma interface, laser matter interaction. He has authored 170 journal articles, 12 book chapters, 2 patents and co-author of 2 books.

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