Announcing a Special Issue of the
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
on Atmospheric-Pressure Plasmas: Science and Applications
(Scheduled for June 2009)

Contributions are invited for a Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (to appear in mid-2009) on the topic of “Atmospheric-Pressure Plasmas: Science and Applications”. 

This Special Issue will be a tribute to the rapidly increasing importance of atmospheric-pressure non-equilibrium plasmas.  In the last 20 years, the number of papers devoted to the physics of atmospheric-pressure plasmas has grown tremendously.  Every traditional low-temperature plasma science conference (GEC, ICPIG, ICOPS, ISPC to name just a few) by now has at least one, if not more sessions devoted exclusively to atmospheric-pressure plasmas.  Likewise, the range of applications of atmospheric-pressure plasmas has steadily grown far beyond the traditional areas of ozone generation, electrostatic precipitators, and excimer sources to include environmental and biological and more recently also biomedical and medical applications.

The Special Issue will consist mostly of original research papers of the quality that are normally published in this journal and may also include a small number of review papers (invited by the Guest Editor). 

All manuscripts should reach the Guest Editor no later than by November 30, 2008 at the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science IEEE Manuscript Central website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tps-ieee).  Please make sure that you select the correct Special Issue for your submission.  Prospective authors who have not published in the journal before, need to register first, which can be done directly on the Manuscript Central website.  Further information about the journal as well as information regarding publication charges can be found at www.ieeetps.org.  

Questions regarding this Special Issue can be addressed directly to the Guest Editor:

Prof. Kurt H. Becker
Physics Department
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Six MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: (718) 260-3608;  fax: (718) 260-3755;
E-mail: kbecker@poly.edu