Partial Support for Graduate Summer Institute on Complex Plasmas

CBET-0820597，洛佩兹目前，人们对等离子体的作用重新产生了浓厚的兴趣，特别是复杂的等离子体，其中包括纳米至微米尺寸的其他颗粒物质，例如尘埃。这种兴趣的部分驱动力是等离子体在半导体等离子体处理和大型聚变装置中的应用。无论是理想的还是不理想的，了解尘埃粒子的动力学、它们表面的化学过程、它们与宿主等离子体的相互作用以及其他因素往往至关重要。微等离子体是另一个快速发展领域的中心，因为它们可以在比传统等离子体高得多的压力下工作。这样的环境有助于许多有趣的应用，包括高功率激光器、打开开关、新型等离子体处理应用和溅射、电磁吸收器和反射器、气态污染物的补救、医疗灭菌和生物去污，以及准分子灯和其他非相干真空紫外（VUV）光源。该奖项为美国研究生和博士后学生提供部分支持，以参加国际复杂等离子体研究生暑期研究所，将于2008年7月30日至8月7日在新泽西霍博肯的史蒂文斯理工学院举行。 既定目标是教育复杂等离子体所带来的科学挑战和技术机遇。 其广泛而严格的课程将通过吸引大量年轻的美国研究人员来进一步推动这一新兴领域的发展，因为他们将在这些领域遇到科学挑战和技术机遇，从而可以建立成功的学术或工业生涯。此外，新兴的复杂等离子体应用似乎是小型高科技初创公司的一个非常肥沃的领域，这些公司将把这一领域视为市场实现基本等离子体概念的有利创新来源。参加学校的研究生和博士后学生将接受等离子体物理学的培训，因为它涉及等离子体工艺的重要技术领域。除了对所涉及的主题进行全面和彻底的介绍外，暑期学校还将对特别重要的主题进行深入的介绍，包括实验技术和计算机模拟。 与欧洲顶尖等离子体研究人员的接触对参与其中的美国学生也将具有巨大的价值。

CBET-0820597, LopezThere is presently a strong resurgence of interest in the role of plasmas in particular complex plasmas that include additional particle species of nanometer- to micrometer-size such as dust. Part of the driving force for this interest is plasma uses in semiconductor plasma processing and in large fusion devices. Whether desirable or undesirable, it is often crucially important to understand the dynamics of dust particles, the chemical processes at their surfaces, their interactions with the host plasmas, and other factors. Microplasmas are at the center of another rapidly evolving field because they can operate at substantially higher pressures than conventional plasmas. Such an environment aids many interesting applications including high-power lasers, opening switches, novel plasma processing applications and sputtering, electromagnetic absorbers and reflectors, remediation of gaseous pollutants, medical sterilization and biological decontamination, and excimer lamps and other non-coherent vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) light sources.This award provides partial support for American graduate and postdoctoral students to participate in an international Graduate Summer Institute on Complex Plasmas, which will be held from July 30 to August 7, 2008 at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. The stated goal is educational advancement of the scientific challenges and technological opportunities afforded by complex plasmas. Its broad yet rigorous curriculum will lead to further advancement in this new and emerging field by attracting young American researchers in significant numbers since they will encounter scientific challenges as well as technological opportunities in these areas upon which they can build a successful academic or industrial career. Further, the emerging complex plasma applications appear to be a remarkable fertile field for small, high-tech start-up companies which will perceive this field as a favorable innovation source for marketplace realization of basic plasma concepts.Graduate and postdoctoral students attending the school will be trained to work on plasma physics as it is involved in technologically important areas where plasma processes are employed. In addition to comprehensive and thorough introductions to the subjects involved, there will be in-depth contributions at the summer school treating particularly important topics, including experimental techniques and computer simulations. The exposure to top European plasma researchers will also be of great value to the American students involved.