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Lectures
11 Oct 2012
Gregor Morfill, Ph.D., prof., The head of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
The new Center is currently being built and should be ready in early 2013. We plan to cover a number of important areas of modern plasma physics, chemistry and technology. Our major principle will be a natural transition from teaching and training to basic research and applications.
18 Oct 2012
Mikhail Marahtanov, Ph.D., prof., the head of “Plasma devices” chair BMSTU
Plasma is considered as a mixture of electrons, ions, and neutral atoms or molecules. Usually, it has a low density (e.g., ~10-7 kg/m3), but charged particles in a plasma experience huge electromagnetic forces exerted by external sources. No mechanical device can provide such a strong acceleration like in plasmas. Therefore, plasma technology is usually employed when easily controllable fluxes of highly energetic particles need to be generated, yet one can deal with a relatively small amount of matter.
25 Oct 2012
Gregor Morfill, Ph.D., prof., The head of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
“Dusty”, or “complex” plasmas are composed of a weakly ionized gas and charged microparticles. Dust and dusty plasmas are ubiquitous in space – they are present in planetary rings, cometary tails, interplanetary and interstellar clouds, the mesosphere, thunderclouds, they are found in the vicinity of artificial satellites and space stations, etc.
1 Nov 2012
Dmitry Dukhopelnikov, Ph.D., associate professor, the head of laboratory “Technology of plasma coatings and plasma sources”
The arc discharge has been investigated since last two centuries, but nevertheless it is still considered as one of the most mysterious types of a gas discharge. Arcs are characterized by enormously high currents and glow intensities, and therefore are broadly used for metal welding and melting, and as powerful light sources.
15 Nov 2012
Alexei Ivlev, Dr. Habil.
Many fundamental issues in classical condensed matter physics, such as crystallization, liquid structure, phase separation, glassy states, etc. can be addressed experimentally by using model systems of individually visible mesoscopic particles (grains) playing the role of “proxy atoms“.
22 Nov 2012
Vladimir Nosenko, Ph.D., the head of “Complex plasma” laboratory
Complex plasmas are popular with experimenters. In many cases one can actually see the subject of their study with naked eyes. A plasma crystal in its two-dimensional form can have a diameter of around five centimeters and consist of thousands of micron-size particles separated by half millimeter.
29 Nov 2012
Vladimir Molotkov, Ph.D., the head of laboratory «Complex discharge plasma», Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Being able to observe individual microparticles and their super-slow motion may be ideal for experimental studies of the strongly and weakly correlated systems. This, in turn, could lead to a better understanding of the fundamental principles that govern critical phenomena, such as phase transitions, self-organization of condensed matter, as well as the onset of cooperative phenomena.
6 Dec 2012
Petr Tsygankov, Ph.D., the head of “New matherials” laboratory
The history of industrial use of nanolayered structures began in 1938 when Katherine Blodgett, talented co-worker of Irving Langmuir invented and implemented a method of deposition of multilayer thin and monatomic films on solid substrates. This is how the “low-reflectance optics” has been developed, without which any optical equipment today is unthinkable.
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