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Materials Design by Means of Discharge Plasmas

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Plasma chemistry of heterogeneous systems is still in its infancy. Thus, most of the preparative work is being done by the empirical approach of trial and error in tailoring the materials properties. This requires a large number of experimental points to be known of the multidimensional experimental matrix. The present paper will concentrate on the question of controlled material design which can be achieved with the present understanding of the complicated plasma- chemical phenomena under non-thermal conditions far away from thermodynamical equilibrium. A question of this kind obviously addresses the issue of non-equilibrium dissipative systems, i. e. the domain of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes. The master equation for a typical plasmachemical system contains many terms with insufficiently known elementary constants (cross sections) and it cannot be solved. All problems can be “solved” and some answers “given” to most of the questions when using “mathematical modelling”. This consists of trying to find a set of unknown elementary constants which allow one to fit the measured curve. Although one can gain some usefull information and a feeling of how to design an appropriate experiment (e.g.ref./1/), this approach has brought only a very limited improvement of our understanding of the chemistry taking place in a given system. Therefore we shall concentrate on several selected systems in order to illustrate some general rules which govern the chemical transformations in heterogeneous inorganic systems. Whenever possible the systems to be discussed as illustration will be chosen with respect to their potential applications in industry as well as in basic solid state research.

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  1. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

    David L. Cocke (Associate Professor of Chemistry, Program Co-Chair, 1986 IUCCP Research Symposium) & Abraham Clearfield (Professor of Chemistry, Program Co-Chair, 1986 IUCCP Research Symposium) (Associate Professor of Chemistry, Program Co-Chair, 1986 IUCCP Research Symposium) &  (Professor of Chemistry, Program Co-Chair, 1986 IUCCP Research Symposium)

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Veprek, S. (1987). Materials Design by Means of Discharge Plasmas. In: Cocke, D.L., Clearfield, A. (eds) Design of New Materials. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9501-4_8

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