Topics for doctoral school admission:
- Electrical diagnostics. Langmuir probe. Double probe. Electrostatic analyzer.
- Theoretical models in plasma physics. Single-particle model. Fluid model. Kinetic model.
- Charged particles motion in combined electric and magnetic fields. Drifts.
- Transport phenomena in plasma. Free diffusion. Ambipolar diffusion. Diffusion in magnetized plasmas.
- Collisions treatment using the Monte Carlo method.
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