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Generation And Microwave Scattering Diagnostics Of Small Volume Plasmas, Jordan Chase Sawyer
Generation And Microwave Scattering Diagnostics Of Small Volume Plasmas, Jordan Chase Sawyer
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation focuses on the development of novel generation and microwave scattering diagnostic techniques for small volume plasmas. The small volume plasmas presented in this work fall under the two generalized categories: 1) laser-induced plasmas and 2) non-equilibrium microdischarges.
Chapter I presents the application of microwave scattering theory to laser-induced breakdown in air. The MIE solution to Maxwell’s equations is employed to reveal three distinct phases of the evolution of the laser-induced breakdown in air. Chapter II presents a novel method of quantifying thresholds for laser-induced breakdown. These thresholds are established via total electron number measurement from dielectric calibration of …