| Notes: From the Foreword: Plasma and Laser Technology have found numerous applications for the processing of materials. These include, synthesis of non-equilibrium compounds, machining of ceramics and deposition of materials, both in bulk and thin film forms. Future applications will be limited only by mankind's imagination. This book contains invited and contributed papers presented in the conference on "Plasma and Laser Processing of Materials," held in New Orleans, Louisiana, February, 18-22,1991. This conference was jointly sponsored by the Structural Materials Division and Electronic and Photonic divisions of TMS. The principal purpose of this conference was to provide a state-of-the-art review of Plasma assisted PVD, PACVD, and Laser enhanced CVD processes. This was achieved by encompassing papers dealing with basic fundamentals of Plasma and Laser assisted technology, and also, in-depth papers related to continuing research on synthesis of metastable compounds i,e, c-BN , Diamond and deposition of thin and bulk films. These papers were presented by a broad group of researchers and scientists representing university, federal laboratories, and industries. It is my hope that this book will be an excellent first reading for those engineers and scientists engaged in the Plasma and Laser assisted materials processing technologies. 381 pages. |
