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Processes in plasma and gases involving clusters

B. M. Smirnov

Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: Peculiarities of cluster properties are considered and processes involving them discussed. Generation methods and applications in material fabrication are described. The kinetics of cluster growth in expanding vapor is analysed. The absorption and emission properties of clusters as systems of bound atoms are examined. The properties of a cluster plasma, i.e., a cluster-containing ionized gas, are discussed in relation to cluster light sources.

PACS: 36.40.Vz, 36.40.Wa, 61.46.+w, 85.42.+m

Received: December 31, 1997

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0167.199711b.1169

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 1997, 40:11, 1117–1147

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