MOUNIR LAROUSSI, Guest Editor. Laser and Plasma Engineering Institute. Old Dominion University. Norfolk, VA 23529 USA. FRANK HEGELER, Guest Editor.
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HE 2007 IEEE Pulsed Power and Plasma Science Conference (PPPS-2007) was held in Albuquerque, NM, from June 17 to June 22, 2007. It combined both the 16th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference (PPC) and the 34th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), and it was the second time that PPC and ICOPS joined together since PPPS-2001. The technical program of PPPS-2007 included 7 plenary, 39 invited, 343 oral, and 549 poster presentations, totaling 938 papers. The PPPS-2007 program was extended by a Joint Plenary with the 22nd IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering, which was also located in the Albuquerque Convention Center. We would like to thank all the authors who submitted their papers to this issue, and our acknowledgment is extended to several papers that did not complete the review process in time for publication. Our gratitude goes to the referees of this issue for their meticulous and constructive reports that helped to improve the papers. Our special appreciation goes to Editor-
in-Chief Dr. S. Gitomer and Senior Editor Prof. E. Schamiloglu of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE for their assistance and patience.
MOUNIR LAROUSSI, Guest Editor Laser and Plasma Engineering Institute Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529 USA FRANK HEGELER, Guest Editor Plasma Physics Division Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC 20375 USA XINPEI LU, Guest Editor College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering HuaZhong University of Science and Technology WuHan 430074, China
Mounir Laroussi (S’84–M’86–SM’97) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in June 1988. After a few years of teaching, he joined the Microwave and Plasma Laboratory, University of Tennessee, and was a Research Assistant Professor from 1995 to 1998. In 1998, he joined the Applied Research Center, Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, VA, as a Research Scientist, and established the Applied Plasma Technology Laboratory. Since 2002, he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ODU, and was a Researcher with the Reidy Center for Bioelectrics, ODU, from 2003 to 2006. Since January 2007, he has been the Director of the Laser and Plasma Engineering Institute, ODU. His research interests are physical electronics, particularly the physics and applications of nonequilibrium gaseous discharges, including the biomedical applications of nonthermal plasmas. Dr. Laroussi served as an Elected Member of the PSAC Executive Committee of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society from 2005 to 2007. He has also served as a Guest Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE and as Session Organizer at the International Conference on Plasma Science for many years.
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Frank Hegeler (S’91–M’95–SM’01) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Fachhochschule, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, in 1989 and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Visiting Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. He then joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, as a Postdoctoral Researcher and later as a Research Assistant Professor. Since 2000, he has been a Senior Scientist with the Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, where he is a Contractor through Commonwealth Technology, Inc., Alexandria, VA. His current research interests include high-power electron-beam-pumped KrF lasers, diagnostics, and basic and applied pulsed power. Dr. Hegeler is a member of the American Physical Society and Sigma Xi. He has been a CoGuest Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE (April 2004) and (April 2008) and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DIELECTRICS AND ELECTRICAL INSULATION (August 2007) and is currently an Associate Editor. He is an AdCom member of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society for the 2008–2010 term.
XinPei Lu (M’06–SM’07) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from HuaZhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2001. From 2002 to 2006, he was with the Applied Plasma Technology Laboratory, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, as a Research Associate. In 2007, he joined the HuaZhong University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor (ChangJiang Scholar) with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His research interests include low-temperature plasma sources and their applications, modeling of low-temperature plasmas, plasma diagnostics, inertial confinement fusion; and pulsed power technology. He is the author or coauthor of about 40 scientific articles in these areas.
