RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS

STRONG MICROWAVES IN PLASMAS
Volume 1

PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
Nizhny Novgorod,
25 July-1 August 2005
Edited by A.G. Litvak

Editor's Preface
The 6th International Workshop «Strong Microwaves in Plasmas», July 25 - August 1, 2005 was held on board the river ship «Georgii Zhu-kov» cruising from Nizhny Novgorod to Saint-Petersburg. The Workshop traditionally had an essentially interdisciplinary character bringing together developers of a new type microwave sources and scientists using such sources in basic and applied researches.
The Workshop's title does not define completely the topics under consideration, it originated from the first conferences of this series, when the major attention was focused on the applications of high-power microwaves in plasma research, in particular at the experiments on RF plasma heating and current drive in nuclear fusion setups with magnetic confinement. More recently, the Program Committee of the Workshop has expanded essentially the range of the problems of microwaves applications under consideration. Their list includes problems of the development of new types of radars and remote sensors of environmental and atmospheric objects, microwave technique for the next generation of charged particles accelerators (linear collider, heavy-ion accelerators etc.), microwave technologies of material processing (nanoceramic sintering, annealing of semiconductors, deposition of diamond films, production of gradient coating, carbon nanotube growth etc.).
The 6 Workshop hosted 134 scientists from 16 countries. Overall, 140 papers were presented by 127 speakers at scientific sessions including 20 invited plenary lectures, 23 invited topical presentations, 83 contributed oral talks and 14 posters. Three topical sections were working at the Workshop:

• Development of high-power microwave sources.
• Current drive and microwave plasma heating in fusion installations.
• Gas discharges and other applications of high-power microwaves.

This two-volume edition is the collection of a major part of invited lectures and original contributions at the Sixth International Workshop «Strong microwaves in plasmas». As usual, the text of a few papers have not been submitted by their authors mainly since they have been already published as original papers. Nevertheless, the material of this book gives a sufficiently complete information about the state of art and new trends in the development of high-power microwave sources and their applications.
Alexander Litvak

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