27.3.16

You are invited to attend a lecture

By

Dr. Igor D. Kaganovich

Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, NJ 08543, USA*

Nonlinear Self-Organized Structures in Plasmas - From Electron Kinetics to Nano Technology

Nanomaterials have the potential to revolutionize many fields of science and technology, including electronics, chemical synthesis, energy storage, and environmental and pharmaceutical applications.

Industry is investing billions of dollars to be part of the new material revolution that will come with nanomaterials. However, commercial applications of nanomaterials require reliable, predictable, large-scale and low cost synthesis.

Synthesis by plasma has the potential to satisfy these requirements, as well as to form improved nanomaterials. Plasma synthesis offers the possibility of high throughput, short nanostructure growth time, low cost, and optimized material properties.

These remarkable features of plasma synthesis are in great part due to the ability of plasma synthesis methods to sustain a higher yield production of nanomaterials both in volume and on surfaces, and often at lower process temperature and higher

chemical purity, than conventional chemical synthesis. A critical obstacle toward these goals is the lack of understanding of plasma synthesis processes. It is a joint challenge of plasma and material sciences to understand both plasma operation and

material synthesis with plasma.

In this talk I will give two examples of research performed in this area:

Collective interaction of an electron beam with plasma in etching machines and arc self-organization during nanomaterial synthesis.

Sunday, March 27, 2016, at 12:00

Room 011, Kitot Building