ABSTRACT
Interest continues to grow worldwide in practical applications of weakly ionized, low-temperature, sea-level air plasmas. This book is written for scientists, engineers, practitioners, and graduate students who seek a detailed understanding of 'cold' (non-equilibrium) atmospheric-pressure air plasmas; and their generation, sustainment, characterization, modeling, and practical application. Non-thermal, ambient temperature and pressure volumes of natural air plasmas avoid the restrictions imposed by costly, cumbersome vacuum chambers and by destructively high temperatures. At the same time, however, they vastly complicate the plasma physics and chemistry involved. This edited volume provides the technically savvy reader with the fundamental knowledge necessary to understand the science and the application of these non-equilibrium air plasmas at atmospheric pressure.
