Nicholas Beier, PhD, MSc
Contact
Research Associate, Faculty of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept
- nbeier@ualberta.ca
Courses
ECE 474 - Introduction to Plasma Engineering
Definition of plasma. Behavior in electric and magnetic fields. Particle, kinetic and fluid description of flow and transport phenomena. Waves in plasmas. Current approaches to thermonuclear fusion. High temperature laser produced plasmas and low temperature DC and RF discharge plasmas. Applications in discharge pumping of lasers, plasma etching, thin film deposition and generation of x-rays. Prerequisites: ECE 370 or E E 315 or PHYS 381. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 474 or E E 474.
Featured Publications
N. F. Beier, V. Senthilkumaran, E. Kriz, S. Fourmaux, F. Légaré, T. Ma, A. E. Hussein
Physics of Plasmas. 2024 October; 10.1063/5.0219183
N. F. Beier, F. Dollar
Physical Review E. 2023 July; 10.1103/PhysRevE.108.015201
N. F. Beier, H. Allison, P. Efthimion, K. A. Flippo, L. Gao, S. B. Hansen, K. Hill, R. Hollinger, M. Logantha, Y. Musthafa, R. Nedbailo, V. Senthilkumaran, R. Shepherd, V. N. Shlyaptsev, H. Song, S. Wang, F. Dollar, J. J. Rocca, A. E. Hussein
Physical Review Letters. 2022 September; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.135001
New Journal of Physics. 2019 April; 10.1088/1367-2630/ab1823
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