Industrial Plasma Technology: Applications from Environmental to Energy Technologies

Content: 
Chapter 1 Introduction to Plasmas (pages 1–5): Prof. Hideo Ikegami
Chapter 2 Environmental Application of Nonthermal Plasma (pages 7–17): Prof. Akira Mizuno
Chapter 3 Atmospheric Plasma Air Pollution Control, Solid Waste, and Water Treatment Technologies: Fundamental and Overview (pages 19–36): Jen?Shih Chang
Chapter 4 Optical Diagnostics for High?Pressure Nonthermal Plasma Analysis (pages 37–47): Tetsuji Oda and Ryo Ono
Chapter 5 Laser Investigations of Flow Patterns in Electrostatic Precipitators and Nonthermal Plasma Reactors (pages 49–64): Jerzy Mizeraczyk, Janusz Podlinski, Anna Niewulis and Miroslaw Dors
Chapter 6 Water Plasmas for Environmental Application (pages 65–77): Takayuki Watanabe
Chapter 7 Chemistry of Organic Pollutants in Atmospheric Plasmas (pages 79–92): Ester Marotta, Milko Schiorlin, Massimo Rea and Cristina Paradisi
Chapter 8 Generation and Application of Wide Area Plasma (pages 93–104): Noureddine Zouzou, Kazunori Takashima, Prof. Akira Mizuno and Gerard Touchard
Chapter 9 Nonthermal Plasma?Based System for Exhaust Treatment under Reduced Atmosphere of Pyrolysis Gases (pages 105–111): Marcela Morvova, Viktor Martisovits, Imrich Morva, Ivan Kosinar, Mario Janda, Daniela Kunecova, Nina Kolesarova and Veronika Biskupicova
Chapter 10 Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Engineering by Plasma Techniques (pages 113–139): Prof. Masayuki Kuzuya, Yasushi Sasai, Shin?Ichi Kondo and Yukinori Yamauchi
Chapter 11 Targeting Dendritic Cells with Carbon Magnetic Nanoparticles Made by Dense?Medium Plasma Technology (pages 141–147): Heidi A. Schreiber, Jozsef Prechl, Hongquan Jiang, Alla Zozulya, Zsuzsanna Fabry, Ferencz S. Denes and Matyas Sandor
Chapter 12 Applications of Pulsed Power and Plasmas to Biosystems and Living Organisms (pages 149–163): Hidenori Akiyama, Sunao Katsuki and Masahiro Akiyama
Chapter 13 Applications of Plasma Polymerization in Biomaterials (pages 165–180): David A. Steele and Robert D. Short
Chapter 14 Plasma Sterilization at Normal Atmospheric Pressure (pages 181–192): Tetsuya Akitsu, Siti Khadijah Za aba, Hiroshi Ohkawa, Keiko Katayama?Hirayama, Masao Tsuji, Naohiro Shimizu and Yuichirou Imanishi
Chapter 15 Elimination of Pathogenic Biological Residuals by Means of Low?Pressure Inductively Coupled Plasma Discharge (pages 193–199): Ondrej Kylian, Hubert Rauscher, Ana Ruiz, Benjamin Denis, Katharina Stapelmann and Francois Rossi
Chapter 16 Sterilization and Protein Treatment Using Oxygen Radicals Produced by RF Discharge (pages 201–206): Nobuya Hayashi and Akira Yonesu
Chapter 17 Hydrophilicity and Bioactivity of a Polyethylene Terephthalate Surface Modified by Plasma?Initiated Graft Polymerization (pages 207–219): Nagahiro Saito, Takahiro Ishizaki, Junko Hieda, Syohei Fujita and Osamu Takai
Chapter 18 Strategies and Issues on the Plasma Processing of Thin?Film Silicon Solar Cells (pages 221–229): Prof. Akihisa Matsuda
Chapter 19 Characteristics of VHF Plasma with Large Area (pages 231–245): Prof. Yoshinobu Kawai, Yoshiaki Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Yamauchi and Hiromu Takatsuka
Chapter 20 Deposition of a?Si: H Films with High Stability against Light Exposure by Reducing Deposition of Nanoparticles Formed in SiH4 Discharges (pages 247–257): Kazunori Koga, Masaharu Shiratani and Yukio Watanabe
Chapter 21 Diagnostics and Modeling of SiH4/H2 Plasmas for the Deposition of Microcrystalline Silicon: The Case of Dual?Frequency Sources (pages 259–273): Eleftherios Amanatides and Dimitrios Mataras
Chapter 22 Introduction to Diamond?Like Carbons (pages 275–276): Masaru Hori
Chapter 23 Diamond?Like Carbon for Applications (pages 277–299): John Robertson
Chapter 24 Applications of DLCs to Bioprocessing (pages 301–313): Tatsuyuki Nakatani and Yuki Nitta
Chapter 25 Plasma Processing of Nanocrystalline Semiconductive Cubic Boron Nitride Thin Films (pages 315–334): Kenji Nose and Toyonobu Yoshida
Chapter 26 Fundamentals on Tribology of Plasma?Deposited Diamond?Like Carbon Films (pages 335–338): Julien Fontaine and Christophe Donnet
Chapter 27 Diamond?Like Carbon Thin Films Grown in Pulsed?DC Plasmas (pages 339–347): Enric Bertran, Miguel Rubio?Roy, Carles Corbella and Jose?Luis Andujar
Chapter 28 Plasma Deposition of N?TiO2 Thin Films (pages 349–356): Pablo Romero?Gomez, Angel Barranco, Jose Cotrino, Juan P. Espinos, Francisco Yubero and Agustin R. Gonzalez?Elipe
Chapter 29 Investigation of DLC and Multilayer Coatings Hydrophobic Character for Biomedical Applications (pages 357–363): Rodica Vladoiu, Aurelia Mandes, Virginia Dinca, Mirelsa Contulov, Victor Ciupina, Cristian Petric Lungu and Geavit Musa
Chapter 30 Creation of Novel Electromagnetic and Reactive Media from Microplasmas (pages 365–376): Kunihide Tachibana
Chapter 31 Nanoblock Assembly Using Pulse RF Discharges with Amplitude Modulation (pages 377–383): Shinya Iwashita, Hiroshi Miyata, Kazunori Koga and Masaharu Shiratani
Chapter 32 Thomson Scattering Diagnostics of Discharge Plasmas (pages 385–397): Prof. Kiichiro Uchino and Kentaro Tomita
Chapter 33 Crystallized Nanodust Particles Growth in Low?Pressure Cold Plasmas (pages 399–408): Laifa Boufendi, Marie Christine Jouanny, Marjory Cavarroc, Abdelaziz Mezeghrane, Maxime Mikikian and Yves Tessier
Chapter 34 Collection and Removal of Fine Particles in Plasma Chambers (pages 409–423): Prof. Noriyoshi Sato