Topics for doctoral school admission:
- Electrical diagnostics. The Langmuir probe.
- The fluid model: plasma as two fluids.
- The motion of charged particles in combined electric and magnetic fields, static and homogeneous. The electric drift.
- Free and ambipolar diffusion in a non-magnetized plasma.
- The diffusion process in a magnetized plasma: classical and Bohm diffusion.
Bibliography:
- G. Popa, L. Sîrghi, Bazele fizicii plasmei, Editura Universității Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iași, 2000
- G. Brătescu, Fizica plasmei, Editura Didactică și Pedagogică, București, 1970
- A. Bogaerts, I. Kolev, G. Buyle, Modeling of the Magnetron Discharge, chapter 3 from Reactive Sputter Deposition (editors D. Depla, S. Mahieu), Springer, Berlin, 2008