"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Classification of gas discharges -- 1.3. Summarypart I. Ionization -- 2. Foundations from gas dynamics -- 2.1. The atom, the molecule, and excited states -- 2.2. The statistics of a gas -- 2.3. Kinet…
"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Ionization in the electric field and the first Townsend coefficient3. Microwave breakdown -- 3.1. Microwave breakdown due to diffusion -- 3.2. Microwave breakdown in the presence of a low dc field4. Breakdown and self-…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.7. Transport equations for gas discharges -- 7.1. Equations for the charged particles -- 7.2. The drift-diffusion approximation -- 7.3. Summarypart III. Gas discharges and plasmas. 8. Discharge initiation and plasma formation -- 8.1. Townsend behavior below the breakdown threshold -- 8.2. Pressure times distance and reduc…