Note: GASEOUS DIELECTRICS IX -- Editor's page -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- SECTION 1: BASIC PHYSICS OF GASEOUS DIELECTRICS -- DYNAMICS OF LOW ENERGY ELECTRON COLLISIONS WITH MOLECULES AND CLUSTERS -- LOW ENERGY ELECTRON INTERACTION WITH MOLECULES AT SURFACES -- ION MOTION IN DIELECTRIC GASES -- Electron Mobility and Effective Ionization Coefficients in SF6-CO2 Mixtures -- ELECTRON TRANSPORT, IONIZATION, AND ATTACHMENT COEFFICIENTS IN C2F4 AND C2F4/AR MIXTURES -- RATE CONSTANTS FOR UNIMOLECULAR DECOMPOSITION OF SF6 -- ELECTRON DRIFT VELOCITIES IN THE MIXTURES OF CARBON DIOXIDE AND NITROGEN -- ELECTRON INTERACTIONS WITH c-C4F8 -- THERMAL ELECTRON CAPTURE BY SOME HALOCARBONS -- EXCESS ELECTRON MOBILITY IN ARGON GAS IN AN EXTENDED TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY RANGE -- IR FLUORESCENCE OF XE2 MOLECULES IN BEAM-EXCITED XE GAS AND AR-XE GAS MIXTURE AT HIGH PRESSURES -- Calculation of the Global Warming Potential for Sulfur Hexafluoride Using the Updated Atmospheric Lifetime from Moore, et al. -- SECTION 2: GASEOUS DIELECTRICS AS PLASMA PROCESSING GASES -- THE USE OF SF6 AS A PLASMA PROCESSING GAS -- AN INTEGRATED PLASMA EQUIPMENT - FEATURE EVOLUTION MODEL FOR THIN FILM ETCHING APPLICATIONS -- DEPOSITION OF PLASMA POLYMER FILMS BY AN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE GLOW DISCHARGE -- CHEMISORBED CF3I ON A SILICON SURFACE -- ELECTRON COLLISION PROCESSES IN NITROGEN TRIFLUORIDE -- SECTION 3: MODELING AND SIMULATION OF GAS-DISCHARGE BEHAVIOR -- A HYBRID PIC-MCC/FLUID MODEL FOR STREAMER DISCHARGES UNDER HIGH GAS PRESSURES -- ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF GAS DISCHARGES IN RELATION WITH THEIR PROPERTIES USING A NUMERICAL TREATMENT -- INITIATION OF LEADER IN LONG AIR GAPS AT QUASI-STEADY CORONA NEAR STRESSED ELECTRODE -- A PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATION OF PLASMA OPENING SWITCH -- TWO DIMENSIONAL PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATION OF PREDISCHARGE PHENOMENA ALONG AN INSULATOR. , EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AND MONTE CARLO SIMULATION ON LUMINOUS LAYERS IN NEON -- STEP-WISE PROPAGATION OF LONG STREAMER IN ELECTRONEGATIVE GASES -- FAST TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT AND SIMULATION OF CORONA -- SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF NEAR-EARTH SPACE AS A GASEOUS DIELECTRIC -- SECTION 4: PARTIAL DISCHARGES: BASIC MECHANISMS AND APPLICATIONS -- ELECTRICAL INSULATION DIAGNOSIS AND BREAKDOWN PREDICTION OF GAS INSULATED POWER APPARATUS BASED ON PARTIAL DISCHARGE MECHANISM -- LONG-TERM SEQUENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NEGATIVE PARTIAL DISCHARGE IN PRESSURED SF6,GAS -- PD Inception and Breakdown Voltage Characteristics in PFC and SF6 gas mixtures -- INFLUENCE OF THE SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON THE SENSITIVITY OF THE UHF METHOD -- CORONA DISCHARGE PHENOMENOLOGY AT ONSET IN WEAKLY ELECTRONEGATIVE GAS MIXTURES -- PARTIAL DISCHARGE AND BREAKDOWN CHARACTERISTICS IN N2/O2 AND N2/CO2 GAS MIXTURES UNDER INHOMOGENEOUS ELECTRIC FIELD -- PARTIAL DISCHARGE AND BREAKDOWN MECHANISMS IN ULTRA-DILUTE SF6 AND PFC GASES WITH N2 GAS -- Variation of Partial Discharge Behavior of Epoxy Under Sealed Condition -- GENERAL CONSIDERATION FOR THE PARTIAL DISCHARGE DETECTION SENSITIVITY -- EXCIMER EMISSION FROM PULSED HIGH PRESSURE XENON GLOW DISCHARGES -- BENZENE DESTRUCTION IN DIRECT CURRENT ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE AIR GLOW DISCHARGES -- SECTION 5: NEW STUDIES OF DIELECTRIC GASES/MIXTURES -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAST SINGLE-SHOT AND REPETITIVELY-OPERATED SF6 CLOSING SWITCHES FOR PULSED-POWER APPLICATIONS -- APPLICATION OF FLUOROCARBON VAPOR TO ELECTRICAL INSULATION -- INSULATION PROPERTIES OF CO2/N2 GAS MIXTURE WITH A SMALL AMOUNT OF SF6 -- POSSIBILITY OF GAS MIXTURES CONTAINING c-C4F8 AS A SF6 SUBSTITUTE IN GAS INSULATION -- PARTIAL DISCHARGE MECHANISM AND CURRENT WAVEFORMS IN ELECTRONEGATIVE GASES AND GAS MIXTURES -- PRESSURE DEPENDENCE OF BREAKDOWN TIMES IN LOW PRESSURE GAS. , MULTIFRAME SCHLIEREN REGISTRATION OF SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF THE LEADER IN COMPRESSED SF6 -- EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF PARTICLE MOVEMENT MODELING IN A COAXIAL DIELECTRIC COATED ELECTRODE SYSTEM IN SF6 -- ELECTRICAL BREAKDOWN EXPERIMENTS IN AIR FOR MICROMETER GAPS UNDER VARIOUS PRESSURES -- STEP PROPAGATION MECHANISM OF IMPULSE CREEPAGE DISCHARGE IN N2/SF6 GAS MIXTURES -- Dielectric Properties of Gas Mixtures with Carbon Fluoride Gases and N2/CO2 -- STUDY ON INSULATION CAPABILITY OF HIGH TEMPERATURE GAS VIA LASER-PRODUCED PLASMA -- SECTION 6: HIGH PRESSURE GAS DIELECTRICS/MIXTURES -- LIGHTNING IMPPULSE BREAKDOWN CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH-PRESSURE N2 AS AN ALTERNATIVE INSULATION GAS TO SF6 -- DIELECTRIC PERFORMANCE OF CO2 GAS COMPARED WITH N2 GAS -- Breakdown Strength of N2-SF6 Gas Mixtures Containing 10% and 5% SF6 Compared with pure SF6 -- THE EFFECT OF A PARTICLE CONTAMINATED SPACER SURFACE ON THE DIELECTRIC STRENGTH IN SF6/N2 GAS MIXTURES -- THE INFLUENCE OF SPACE-CHARGE ON THE BREAKDOWN IN SF6 -- SECTION 7: DECOMPOSITION OF DIELECTRIC GASES -- ABLATION IN SF6 CIRCUIT-BREAKER ARCS: PLASMA PROPERTIES AND BY-PRODUCTS FORMATION -- BYPRODUCTS IN THE INSULATING GASEOUS MATRIX OF A GIS -- STUDY OF THE DECOMPOSITION OF TRACES OF SF6 IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE: THE KINETIC RESULTS -- SPARK DECOMPOSITION OF SF6,SF6Nz (10:90 AND 5:95) MIXTURES IN THE PRESENCE OF METHANE (0-4%) OR ETHYLENE (0-2%) -- THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF HYDROLYSIS OF SULFUR FLUORIDES SFn (n = 3-6) IN THE GAS PHASE -- SECTION 8: GAS-INSULATED EQUIPMENT I -- GIS VERSUS NON-GIS - A VALUE BASED COMPARISON -- DIELECTRIC STUDY AND DEVELPMENT OF GAS-INSULATED TRANSFORMER -- PERFORMANCE OF SF6 GAS MIXTURES IN HIGH-VOLTAGE CIRCUIT BREAKERS -- Interrupting Characteristics of Small Current Using NS/F6 Gas Mixtures -- INSULATION CHARACTERISTICS OF GIS FOR NON-STANDARD LIGHTNING SURGE WAVEFORMS. , Enhanced Field Calculation for HVDC GIS -- SECTION 9: GAS-INSULATED EQUIPMENT II -- DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF GAS INSULATED BUS APPLYING LOW SF6 CONTENT AND HIGHLY COMPRESSED N2/SF6 GAS MIXTURES -- NEW CONCEPT OF SWITCHGEAR FOR REPLACING SF6 GAS OR GAS MIXTURE -- Risk Assessment of Free Particles in GIS/GIL Based on Spectral Analysis -- DETERMINATION OF INCEPTION AND BREAKDOWN VOLTAGES OF N2 -SF6 GAS-MIXTURES IN STRONG INHOMOGENEOUS FIELDS -- INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF POLARITY OF SWITCHING AND LIGHTNING IMPULSE VOLTAGES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF AIR FOR SHORT GAP DISTANCES IN EXTREMELY NONUNIFORM FIELD -- CREEPING FLASHOVER CHARACTERISTICS OF UNDER PULSE VOLTAGE IN N2/SF6 MIXTURES -- USE OF SPHERE GAPS AND SPHERE - ROD GAPS UNDER STANDARD LIGHTNING IMPULSE VOLTAGES -- The breakdown of a tower - line clearance under impulse voltages pre - stressed by a negative D.C. voltage -- SECTION 10: SF6 INSULATED APPARATUS: BYPRODUCTS/DETECTION/RECOVERY -- CHEMICAL DECOMPOSITION OF HIGH PRESSURE SF6/N2 (5:95) MIXTURES UNDER NEGATIVE DC CORONA DISCHARGES -- IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS OF SF6 LEAK RATES IN INDOOR GAS-INSULATED SWITCHGEARS (GIS) -- SF6 GAS RECOVERY FROM SF6/N2 MIXTURES USING POLYMER MEMBRANE -- Separation of SF6/N2 Mixtures -- SECTION 11: INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK -- GAS INSULATION SYSTEMSACTIVITIESOF CIGRE WG 15.03 -- SF6 GAS HANDLING IN JAPAN FOCUSED ON EMISSION REDUCTION FROM GAS INSULATED ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT -- EPRI's PRESENT AND FUTURE SF6 RESEARCH -- U.S. EPA's SF6 Emissions Reduction Partnership for Electric Power Systems: Results and Prospects -- An Industrial Perspective on SF6 Issues -- SECTION 12: DISCUSSION PANEL -- DISCUSSION PANEL: DATABASES FOR GASEOUS DIELECTRICS AND PLASMA PROCESSING -- PARTICIPANTS -- PHOTOGRAPHS OF PARTICIPANTS -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.

Note: Fundamental Electron Interactions with Plasma Processing Gases -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 FUNDAMENTAL ELECTRON-MOLECULE INTERACTIONS AND THEIR TECHNOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- Chapter 2 ELECTRON-MOLECULE INTERACTIONS IN THE GAS PHASE: CROSS SECTIONS AND COEFFICIENTS -- Chapter 3 SYNTHESIS AND ASSESSMENT OF ELECTRON COLLISION DATA -- Chapter 4 ELECTRON INTERACTIONS WITH CF4, C2F6, AND C3F8 -- Chapter 5 ELECTRON INTERACTIONS WITH CHF3, CF3I, AND c-C4F8 -- Chapter 6 ELECTRON INTERACTIONS WITH Cl2, CCl2F2, BCl3, AND SF6 -- Index -- About the Authors.