Session VF1: Glows

Chair: R. Dussart, GREMI, CNRS/Université d'Orléans
- Salon E


Friday, October 17, 2008
8:00AM - 8:30AM

VF1.00001: Study of Planar Surface Wave Excited Plasma
Invited Speaker: Caizhong Tian

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Friday, October 17, 2008
8:30AM - 8:45AM

VF1.00002: Hybrid modelling of an ac-driven low-pressure He-Xe lamp discharge
Detlef Loffhagen , Florian Sigeneger

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Friday, October 17, 2008
8:45AM - 9:00AM

VF1.00003: Role of metastable molecules and negative ions in dc and rf oxygen discharges
Gordon K. Grubert , Detlef Loffhagen , Florian Sigeneger

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Friday, October 17, 2008
9:00AM - 9:15AM

VF1.00004: Scaling Relationship for Energetic Electron Beams Propagating in Air
R.F. Fernsler , S.P. Slinker , S.G. Lambrakos

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Friday, October 17, 2008
9:15AM - 9:30AM

VF1.00005: Effect of Electron Energy Distribution Function on Global Model for High Power Microwave Breakdown at High Pressure
Sang Ki Nam , John Verboncoeur

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Session VF2: Electron and Ion Transport in Gases

Chair: Rainer Johnsen, University of Pittsburgh
- Salon A-D


Friday, October 17, 2008
8:00AM - 8:15AM

VF2.00001: Variation of electron mobility with gas density
Ardeshir Bagheri

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Friday, October 17, 2008
8:15AM - 8:30AM

VF2.00002: Direct Determination of He-O+ Interaction Potential from Gaseous Ion Mobility Data
Amir-Hossein Jalili , Naser Seyed-Matin

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Friday, October 17, 2008
8:30AM - 8:45AM

VF2.00003: Electron swarm coefficients for H$_{2}$O and H$_{2}$O-N$_{2}$
A.M. Juarez , E. Basurto , J.L. Hernandez-Avila , J. de Urquijo

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Friday, October 17, 2008
8:45AM - 9:00AM

VF2.00004: Modeling of positron thermalization in collisional traps
Ana Bankovic , Joan P. Marler , Gordana Malovic , Stephen J. Buckman , Milovan Suvakov , Zoran Lj. Petrovic

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Friday, October 17, 2008
9:00AM - 9:15AM

VF2.00005: Complex interplay of collisional and RF electric/magnetic field effects for electron transport in gases
S. Dujko , R.D. White , K.F. Ness , R.E. Robson

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Friday, October 17, 2008
9:15AM - 9:30AM

VF2.00006: Experimental Investigation on the Boltzmann Relation for a Bi-Maxwellian Plasma
Jin-Young Bang , Chin-Wook Chung

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Session VF3: Plasma Boundaries

Chair: Raoul Franklin, The Open University, UK
- Addison Room


Friday, October 17, 2008
8:00AM - 8:15AM

VF3.00001: Improvement of a multi-fluid plasma model for the near-cathode region in thermal plasmas$^*$
Frank Scharf , Ralf Peter Brinkmann

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Friday, October 17, 2008
8:15AM - 8:30AM

VF3.00002: Presheaths are a useful concept; their role in establishing anisotropy at the sheath edge
Noah Hershkowitz , Greg Severn

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Friday, October 17, 2008
8:30AM - 8:45AM

VF3.00003: Experimental studies of transverse metastable ion velocity distribution functions in the presheath of a weakly collisional argon plasma
Greg Severn , Dongsoo Lee , Noah Hershkowitz

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Friday, October 17, 2008
8:45AM - 9:00AM

VF3.00004: How is the Bohm criterion satisfied in plasmas with several positive ions
Miles M. Turner , Derek D. Monahan

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Friday, October 17, 2008
9:00AM - 9:15AM

VF3.00005: Analytical expression for Child-Langmuir sheath edge around a corner
T.E. Sheridan

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Friday, October 17, 2008
9:15AM - 9:30AM

VF3.00006: Langmuir's paradox, wave-particle scattering, and the presheath
Scott Baalrud , James Callen , Chris Hegna

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