12th International Symposium on High Pressure, Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (HAKONE XII)

Abstract

The 11th International Symposium on High Pressure, Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (HAKONE XI) was held on Oleron Island, France, from September 7th to 12th, 2008, organized by the LAPLACE laboratory of the University of Toulouse. This specialized biannual conference derives its name from the small resort area Hakone in Japan where it was first organized in 1987. It is purposely kept small with no parallel sessions and preferentially meets in remote locations to stimulate scientific discussion. This year we had 117 contributions and 130 participants from 26 countries. The next meeting, HAKONE XII, will be organized in 2010 in the High Tatra Mountains in Slovakia. Since the first conference, which was mainly devoted to ozone generation and NOx formation in corona discharges (CDs) and in dielectric barrier discharges (DBDs) a number of new applications have evolved: DBD excited CO2 lasers, excimer lamps emitting UV and VUV radiation and fluorescent lamps based on excimer radiation, flat plasma display panels, pollution control, surface modification and thin film deposition. This symposium showed again that the field is still very active. New results were presented on a better under- standing, the numerical modeling and the control of various discharge mechanisms: filamentary, regularly patterned or homogeneous DBDs, streamer formation and propagation. Various discharge types are investigated: special co-planar DBD arrangements, microplasma devices, pulsed coronas, gliding arc discharges, atmospheric-pressure plasma jets and electron beam generated plasmas.