LABORATORY COURSE IN PLASMAS

NE 526

Course Description

Provides a background in the techniques for creating, exciting, and measuring the properties of lab plasmas and using the associated apparatus.

Prerequisties

ECE/NE/PHYSICS 525 or graduate/professional standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average

3.38

-5.05% from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

2.81% from Historical

A Rate

62.5%

32.99% from Historical

Class Size

-25.68% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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ECE/NE/PHYSICS 725

Coulomb Collisions, Boltzmann equation, Fokker-Planck methods, dynamical friction, neoclassical diffusion, collision operators radiation processes and experimental applications. Basic knowledge of plasmas [such asPHYSICS/E C E/N E 525] and advanced electromagnetics [such asPHYSICS 721orE C E 740] strongly encouraged.

INTRODUCTION TO PLASMAS

ECE/NE/PHYSICS 525

Basic description of plasmas: collective phenomena and sheaths, collisional processes, single particle motions, fluid models, equilibria, waves, electromagnetic properties, instabilities, and introduction to kinetic theory and nonlinear processes. Examples from fusion, astrophysical and materials processing processing plasmas.

SEMINAR IN PLASMA PHYSICS

ECE/NE/PHYSICS 922

Current topics in plasma physics.

PLASMA PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGY

ECE/NE 528

Introduction to basic understanding and techniques. Plasma processing of materials for semiconductors, polymers, plasma spray coatings, ion implantation, etching, arcs, extractive metallurgy and welding. Plasma and materials diagnostics.

SPECIAL TOPICS-PLASMA PHYSICS

NE 903

Special Topics in Plasma Physics. Knowledge of Plasma Physics [such asPHYSICS/E C E/N E 525] required

LABORATORY COURSE IN PLASMAS

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