
Plasma Engineering
Applications from Aerospace to Bio and Nanotechnology
Resources
Description
Key Features
- Features new material relevant to application, including emerging areas of plasma nanotechnology and medicine
- Contains a new chapter on plasma-based control, as well as a description of RF and microwave-based plasma applications, plasma lighting, reforming and other most recent application areas
- Provides a technical treatment of the fundamental and engineering principles used in plasma applications
Readership
Graduate students taking plasma engineering or plasma physics courses 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
Table of Contents
- 1. Plasma concepts
2. Plasma diagnostics
3. Electrical discharges
4. Plasma Dynamics
5. Plasma in Space Propulsion
6. Plasma-based control
7. Plasma nanoscience and nanotechnology
8. Plasma Medicine
Product details
- No. of pages: 586
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: August 6, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128137024
- eBook ISBN: 9780128137031
About the Authors
Michael Keidar
The George Washington University
Research Activities: Advanced spacecraft propulsion, plasma medicine, bioengineering, plasma-based nanotechnology.
Teaching: thermodynamics, heat transfer, propulsion, plasma engineering
Awards:
2009 Outstanding SEAS Young Researcher Award
2008 elected Associate Fellow, AIAA
2006 Research Faculty Recognition Award by University of Michigan
Professional Memberships:
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Associate Fellow
American Physical Society (APS), Member
International Society of Plasma Medicine (ISPM), Founding Member
Member of AIAA Electric Propulsion Technical Committee (EP)
Founder and Director, Micropropulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MpNL)
Steering Committee, Plasma Nanoscience Symposium (iPlasmaNanoSym)
Steering Committee, GW Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBE)
Editorial Board: International Journal of Plasma Science and Engineering
Affiliations and Expertise
Isak Beilis
Tel Aviv University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Physical phenomena in high current electrical discharges, at the electrode surface and in
the near electrode plasma
author of over 150 journal articles, 12 book chapters, and 2 patents