Kinetics and Spectroscopy of Low Temperature Plasmas

Introduction to Kinetics and Spectroscopy of Low Temperature Plasmas is a comprehensive textbook designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Both authors rely on more than 20 years of teaching experience in renowned Physics Engineering courses to write this book addressing the students’ needs. This book derives in a full self-consistent way the kinetic theory used to describe low temperature plasmas created in the laboratory with a discharge, and presents the main optical spectroscopic diagnostics used to characterize such plasmas. The chapters with the theoretical contents make use of a deductive approach in which the kinetic theory applied to plasmas is derived from the basic concepts of Statistical Physics. On the other hand, the main optical spectroscopy diagnostics used to characterize experimentally the plasmas are presented and justified from the point of view of the Atomic and Molecular Physics.

Dr. JORGE M. A. H. LOUREIRO received his PhD in Physics from the Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal. He is currently Associate professor at IST, since 1994, where he accumulates 26 years of teaching experience on the following graduate and undergraduate courses: Electromagnetism and Optics; Classical Electrodynamics; Plasma Physics; Gas Discharges; Atomic and Molecular Physics of Plasmas.

Dr. Jayr de Amorim Filho received his Bachelor in Electronic Engineering from the Engineering College, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil (1987), and went on to receive his MSc from the Aeronautics Technology Institute (ITA), in 1989, and a PhD in Physics from Universite Paris XI, Orsay, France (1994), where he spent an additional year conducting his postdoctoral research. He is now full professor at ITA, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil. His current research focus on Plasma Physics, Electric Discharges, and RF and microwave applied to biomass processing.