Swarm Studies and Inelastic Electron-Molecule Collisions: Proceedings of the Meeting of the Fourth International Swarm Seminar and the Inelastic Electron-Molecule Collisions Symposium, July 19–23, 1985, Tahoe City, California, USA

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A comparative Study of the Computing Methods Actually in use for Accurate Determination of Swarm Parameters....Pages 3-22
Recent Advances in High-Pressure Swarms....Pages 23-41
Electron—Ion Recombination in High-Pressure Gases....Pages 43-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Principles of the Measurement of Electron Drift Velocities....Pages 55-61
Effect of Boundaries and Field Inhomogeneities on Swarms....Pages 63-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Program of the JILA Atomic Collisions Cross-Section Data Center....Pages 75-75
Collisionally Induced Dissociation of Ions in a Strong Drift Field and its use as an Analysis Tool....Pages 77-77
Retarding Potential Difference Analysis of Ion Swarm Velocity Distributions: A Computer Simulation Study....Pages 79-79
Transverse Diffusion of Lithium Ions in Helium....Pages 81-81
Electron Attachment to F 2 ....Pages 83-84
Thermal Electron Attachment to van der Waals Molecules (O 2 .N 2 )....Pages 85-85
Time-Resolved Measurements of Thermalization Processes of Subexcitation Electrons in Rare Gases....Pages 87-87
Electron Swarm Study in Nitrogen-Rare-Gas Mixtures and Vibrational Excitation in Nitrogen....Pages 89-89
Excited-State Quenching Phenomena in Weakly Ionized Nitrogen....Pages 91-91
Electron Drift Velocity and Attachment and Ionization Coefficients in CH 4 , CF 4 , C 2 F 6 , C 3 F 8 and n-C 4 F 10 ....Pages 93-94
Comparison of Calculated and Experimental Thermal Attachment Rate Constants for SF 6 in the Temperature Range 200–600K....Pages 95-96
Measurements of Electron and Ion Transport Data in SF 6 and SF 6 /N 2 Mixtures....Pages 97-97
Common Parameterizations of Swarm and Breakdown Data for Binary Electronegative-Nonelectronegative Gas Mixtures....Pages 99-99
Boltzmann Equation Analysis of the Synergism of Uniform Field Breakdown Voltage for SF 6 -CCL 2 F 2 and SF 6 -SO 2 Mixtures....Pages 101-101
Effect of Gas Impurity for the Electron Drift Velocities in Inert Gases by Boltzmann Equation Analysis....Pages 103-103
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Spatial Variations in the Energy Distribution Function for Steady State Townsend Discharges....Pages 105-105
Excitation and Ionization Rates in Hydrogen at Very High E/n....Pages 107-107
Evolution Equation and Transport Coefficients of Swarms in Short Time Development of Initial Relaxation Processes....Pages 109-110
Transient Hot Electron Mobility in Ethene and Cyclopropane....Pages 111-111
Nonequilibrium Behavior of Electrons in Strong Electric Fields....Pages 113-113
Steady-State, Spatially Dependent Electron Transport and Rate Coefficients....Pages 115-115
Transport Coefficients of Electron Swarms in Gases in the Presence of Nonconservative Collisions....Pages 117-117
Convenient Expressions of Diffusion Coefficients for Free Electrons in Gases in Presence of Ramsauer Effects....Pages 119-119
The Approach to Equilibrium of Electron Swarms in Non-Planar Geometries....Pages 121-121
Magnetic Control of Low Pressure Diffuse Discharges....Pages 123-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Relations Between Electron-Molecule Scattering and Swarm Experiments and Analysis....Pages 127-141
Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Near-Threshold e-H 2 Collisions....Pages 143-166
Electron Collision Cross-Sections for Molecules Determined from Beam and Swarm Data....Pages 167-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Low-Energy, High-Resolution Electron-Molecule Collision Studies....Pages 191-204
Threshold Phenomena in Electron-Molecule Collisions....Pages 205-216
Rotational and Vibrational Excitation of Molecules by Low-Energy Electrons....Pages 217-237
Studies of Elastic and Electronically Inelastic Electron-Molecule Collisions....Pages 239-264
Inelastic Electron-Molecule Scattering Using the R-Matrix Method....Pages 265-283
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Fragmentation Dynamics and Energy Partitioning in Dissociative Attachment on Triatomic Molecules....Pages 287-302
Effects of Temperature on Dissociative and Nondissociative Electron Attachment....Pages 303-328
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Electron Impact Ionization Cross-Sections for Atoms, Radicals, and Metastables....Pages 329-346
Total Dissociation Cross-Sections of Fluoroalkanes for Electron Impact: Their Usefulness for Understanding Plasma-Assisted Etching Environments....Pages 347-350
Electron-Cluster Interactions....Pages 351-366
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Discharge Modeling....Pages 369-384
Boltzmann Equation in Vibrationally and Electronically Excited Molecular Plasmas....Pages 385-400
Applications of Cross-Sections for Electron-Molecule Collision Processes....Pages 401-408
Current Applications and Opportunities in Swarm Studies....Pages 409-423