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Plasma Physics II - NEVF120
Title: Fyzika plazmatu II
Guaranteed by: Department of Surface and Plasma Science (32-KFPP)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2014 to 2019
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Juraj Glosík, DrSc.
RNDr. Petr Dohnal, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Štěpán Roučka, Ph.D. (28.01.2019)
Plasma placed in an electric field (constant, microwave). Drifts in plasma, plasma conductivity. Diffusion and ambipolar diffusion. Influence of a magnetic field. Gas discharges (dark, glow, microwave, arc, spark and corona discharges). Discharge instabilities. Plasma diagnostic. Applications of plasma.
Literature -
Last update: T_KEVF (11.05.2012)

Auciello O., Flamm D. L. (ed.): Plasma Diagnostics, Vol. I, Academic Press, N.Y., 1989.

Chen F. F.: Úvod do fyziky plazmatu, Academia Praha 1984.

Kracík J., Tobiáš J.: Fyzika plazmatu, Academia Praha 1966.

Raizer J. P.: Gas Discharge Physics, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1991.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Štěpán Roučka, Ph.D. (28.01.2019)
1. Plasma in external fields
Effect of external fields on the plasma. Distribution function disturbance (division of Boltzmann kinetic equation). Collision term (derivation).

2. Transport phenomena
Plasma in a constant electric field (drift velocitiy, mobility- derivation and experimental estimation), conductivity. Plasma in microwave field, propagation of microwaves in plasma, plasma microwave conductivity. Difussion and ambipolar diffusion (derivation and experimental estimation of the diffusion coefficients). Diffusion in various configurations, magnetic field influence.

3. Gas discharges
Dark discharge (Towsend discharge, electron avalanche). Glow discharge (description, basic properties, cathode parts, positive column, diffusion theory). Arc discharge (low pressure and high pressure arcs, properties, positive column). Microwave discharge (diffusion with volume recombination). Spark and corona discharges. Kinetic instabilities in discharges.

4. Diagnostics and applications
Plasma diagnostics (probe, microwave, optical and corpuscular methods). Applications of plasma. Plasma-chemistry and plasma-technology.

 
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