Main Page > MS (Physics) 2-Years Program (Regular) > APPLIED PLASMA PHYSICS
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APPLIED PLASMA PHYSICS
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Introduction: Basics of plasma, plasma parameters, diffusion of charged particles in plasma, plasma types. Thermal plasma, nonthermal plasma, microplasma. Plasma Generation: Glow discharge, Pschen’s law, RF discharges, microwave plasma, electron cyclotron resonance plasma, plasma source ion implanation, plasma reactors. Plasma Focus and Plasma Torches: Z-pinch device, plasma Focus device, tokamak, plasma Torches and applications. Plasma Chemistry, plasma processes and plasma polymerization: Chemical reactions, plasma surface interactions, etching, nitriding, carburizing, and boriding, deposition of organic and inorganic films, diamond and diamond like films, sputtering. Plasma Diagnostics: Charged particle and neutron diagnostics: Faraday cups and solid-state nuclear track detectors for detection and analysis of charged particles, Time-resolved and time-integrated neutron measurement. Rogowski coil, high voltage probe, magnetic probe, Langmuir probe, voltage loops and Mironov coils. Laser as a diagnostic tool: Laser-Induced Plasma, Inverse-Bremsstrahlung or Cascade lionization, Multiphoton lionization, Propagation of (optical frequency) electromagnetic wave through plasma both in the absence and presence of magnetic field, shadowgraphy, schrillian imaging, interferometry and determination of plasma density, measurement of magnetic field by Faraday rotation, Thomson and Rayleigh scattering. X-ray diagnostics of plasmas: X-ray emission from plasmas, absorption filters and their selection, time-resolved x-ray detectors, pinhole imaging camera, estimate of plasma electron temperature. Plasma Spectroscopy: Radiative processes in plasmas, Collisional processes in plasmas, statistical plasma models, plasma optical spectroscopy, and evaluation of plasma parameters. Laser induced fluorescence, absorption spectroscopy, Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Working of LIBS System, Elemental Analysis by LIBS, Evaluation of Electron Temperature and Density by using LIBS Technique, Influence of Nature and Pressure of Shield gases, time delay, laser wavelength and fluence on the emission intensity, electron temperature and density of Laser-induced plasma. |
| Credit hours/ Marks:- 3 |
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