Advances in Plasma and Laser Engineering (Second Edition)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Materials Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 124
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Interests: development of microwave plasma sources; applications of microwave plasmas; diagnostics of microwave plasmas
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Materials is intended to provide a description of devices and processes related to the advances in plasma and laser engineering. Plasma is called the fourth state of matter because its properties differ significantly from those of ordinary gas. Plasma can be considered a conductive medium generated by the ionization of gases. Therefore, it occurs as a mixture of photons, electrons, and ions, but it can also contain neutral atoms and molecules. The concept of plasma includes media with very different properties because the composition, densities, and kinetic energies of plasma components differ for various types of plasma by several or even more orders of magnitude. A laser is a device that emits electromagnetic radiation in the visible, ultraviolet, or infrared range, using the phenomenon of forced emission. Laser radiation is coherent, usually polarized, and has the form of a beam with very little divergence. In a laser, it is easy to obtain radiation with a very small line width, which is equivalent to very high power in a selected narrow spectral region. With pulsed lasers, it is possible to obtain a very high power in a pulse and a very short pulse duration. Both plasma devices and lasers can have different designs, properties, and applications. Plasma and laser applications include, but are not limited to, the production of new materials and the improvement in the properties of existing materials. The plasma or laser treatment of materials may lead to physicochemical changes in the structure of their surfaces. This Special Issue aims to showcase advances in plasma and laser engineering for all materials.
Best regards,
Dr. Mariusz Jasinski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plasma deposition
- laser deposition
- plasma treatment of materials
- laser treatment of materials
- plasma activation of surfaces
- laser activation of surfaces
- pulsed plasmas
- pulsed lasers
- new materials
- plasma sources
- laser sources
- plasma engineering
- laser engineering
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