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Plasma Science and Technology - Basic Fundamentals and Modern Applications


Author: Haikel Jelassi, Djamel Benredjem
Source: Directory of Open Access Books
Publisher: IntechOpen
ISBN: 9781789852400||9781789852394

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Usually called the ""fourth state of matter,"" plasmas make up more than 99% of known material. In usual terminology, this term generally refers to partially or totally ionized gas and covers a large number of topics with very different characteristics and behaviors. Over the last few decades, the physics and engineering of plasmas was experiencing a renewed interest, essentially born of a series of important applications such as thin-layer deposition, surface treatment, isotopic separation, integrated circuit etchings, medicine, etc. Plasma Science & Technology - Basic Fundamentals and Modern Applications presents the basic fundamentals behind plasma physics along with some of their most important modern applications.