Conference Presentations and Invited
Lectures
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Plasma Research Laboratory
Invited Lectures
98 International Conference on Plasma Physics and 25th EPS Conference on Controlled
Fusion and Plasma Physics, Prague, Czech Republic 29 June - 3 July.
Boswell, R.W. and Lieberman, M.A.#— Transitions from Capactive to Inductive to Wave
Sustained Discharges in RF Plasmas
Conference on Computational Physics, CCP1998, Granada, Spain, 3-4 September.
Gardner, H.J.— Computational Physics, Computational Engineering and Computer Science:
How Physicists can Reach Out to Other Areas of the Curriculum
17th International Atomic Energy Agency Fusion Energy Conference, Yokohama, Japan,
19-24 October.
Harris, J.H. — Confinement, Fluctuations and Electric Fields in the H-1 Heliac
Reiman, A.*, Ku, L.*, Monticello, D.*, Blackwell, B.D. and Harris, J.H.
Physics Issues in the Design of a High Beta, Quasi-Symmetric Stellarator
51st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Maui, Hawaii 19-22 October.
Boswell, R.W— Basic Concepts in Pulsed Plasmas
American Vacuum Society 45th International Symposium, Baltimore, USA, 2-6
November.
Charles, C.— Pulsed Plasma Processing with Helicons
APS (Full Title) Division of Plasma Physics 1998 Conference, New Orleans, USA, 16-20
November.
Boswell, R.W. — Helicons, History, High Technology and Heliacs
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Hirshman, S.P.*, Blackwell, B.D. and Harris, J.H. — Physics of Compact Stellarators
Conference Presentations
US-Japan Workshop on Stellarator Concept Improvement, Princeton Plasma Physics
Laboratory, USA, 27-29 January.
Blackwell, B.D., Borg, G.G., Dewar, R.L., Harris, J.H., Howard, J., Gardner, H.J., Michael,
C.A., Rudakov, D.L., Sharp, L.E., Shats, M.G. and Warr, G.B. — The H-1 Heliac: Physics
Issues and Results
10th Gaseous Electronics Meeting, Sydney Australia 28-30 January.
Borg, G.G., Miljak, D.G. and Kamenski, I.V.— Helicon Wave Antenna Coupling and Heating
in Low Pressure Discharges in the H-1 Heliac
Boswell, R.W.— Helicons, Trivelpiece-Gould Modes and Surface Waves in Magnetized
Plasmas
Charles, C., Smith, H.B. and Boswell, R.W.— Time Constants in a Pulsed Capacitive Low
Pressure Argon Discharge in Asymmetric Geometry
Chi, K.K.# and Boswell, R.W. — Electrical Characteristics of ia Helicon Plasma
Degeling, A.W.and Boswell, R.W.— Very High Density Mode Operation in WOMBAT
Durandet, A., Monsma, B.G., Bes, N.# and Boswell, R.W.—-Effect of Pulsing the Plasma
Source on the Deposition of Silicon Oxide in a Helicon Assisted Reactive Evaporation System
Everett, V.A.*, El-Fayoumi, I.M.*, Howard, J. and Jones, I.R. — Optical Fibre Sensing of
Temperature in rf Plasmas
Gardner, H.J., Boswell, R.W. and Whitehouse, D.—-The Wedge Virtual Reality System for
Visualising Large Data Flows
Gardner, H.J. and Boswell, R.W. —- The WEDGE Virtual Reality System
Hatch, S., Durandet, A., Monsma, B., Davis, C.# and Boswell, R.W.—- Effect of Pulsing the
Plasma Source on the Deposition of Silicon Oxide in a Helicon Assisted Reactive Evaporation
System
Howard, J. and Glass, F.— MOSS Spectroscopy of Ion and Atom Temperatures and Flow
During Confinement Transitions in H-1NF
Kamenski, I.V., Boswell, R.W., Borg, G.G. and Degeling, A.W.— Computer Simulation of
Helicon and Trivelpiece-Gould Wave Propagation in Helicon Plasma Sources
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Monsma, B., Durandet, A. and Boswell, R.W.—-Deposition of Silicon Dioxide using Helicon
Assisted Reactive Evaporation with a Biased Substrate
Sheridan, T.E. and Boswell, R.W.— Effects of Negative Ions in an SF6 Helicon Discharge
Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop, Princeton, USA, 6-9 April.
Blackwell, B.D., Harris, J.H. and Goldston, R.G.* — Simple Coil Elements for the QuasiAxisymmetric Stellarator
Working with Knowledge – International Archives Conference, Canberra, 6-7 May.
Gardner, H.J. — The Wedge Data Visualisation System
13th Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics,
Princeton, New Jersey, 8-12 June.
Howard, J. — MOSS Spectrometer Applications in Plasma Diagnostics
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Rudakov, D.L., Shats, M.G., Boswell,R.W., Charles, C. and Howard,J. —
Overview of Probe Diagnostics on the H-1 Heliac
Tanaka, K.*, Kawahata, K.*, Ejiri, A.*, Howard, J. and Okajima, S.*—
Faraday Rotation Measurements on CHS Heliotron/Torsatron by Using a Phase Sensitive
Heterodyne Polarimeter
98 International Conference on Plasma Physics and 25th EPS Conference on Controlled
Fusion and Plasma Physics, Prague, Czech Republic 29 June - 3 July.
Blackwell, B.D., Borg, G.G., Boswell, R.W., Dettrick, S.A.#, Dewar, R.L., Harris, J.H.,
Howard, J., Gardner, H.J., Kamenski, I.V., Lloyd, S.S., Michael, C.A., Miljak, D.G.,
Rudakov, D.L., Sharp, L.E., Shats, M.G. and Warr, G.B.— The H-1 NF National Plasma
Fusion Research Facility
Shats, M.G., Blackwell, B.D., Harris, J.H., Michael, C.A. and Rudakov, D.L.
Confinement Bifurcations in the H-1 Heliac: Formation and Role of Radial Electric Field
4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Science and Technology and 11th Symposium on
Plasma Science of Materials, Sydney Australia 27-29 July.
Charles, C., Smith, H.B. and Boswell, R.W.—-Time-resolved Breakdown in a Low Pressure
RF Argon Discharge: Experimental Study
Chabert, P.# Perrin, J.* and Boswell, R.W.— Negative Ion Detection in the Diffusion
Chamber of a SF6 Helicon Plasma
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Chi, K.K.# and Boswell, R.W.— Electrical Parameters in a Helicon Plasma
Degeling, A.W., Boswell, R.W. and Sheridan, T.E.— Periodic Disruptions in a Helicon
Plasma by Neutral Depletion
Durandet, A., Gaff, K., Monsma, B.G. and Boswell, R.W.—-Applications of Helicon Assisted
Reactive Evaporation
Gaff, K., Durandet, A. and Boswell, R.W.—-Plasma Expansion of a Remote Helicon Plasma
Source for Thin Film Deposition
Sheridan, T.E. and Boswell, R.W.— Source Effects in a Helicon Reactor
Smith, H.B., Charles, C. and Boswell, R.W.— Time-resolved Breakdown in a Low Pressure
RF Argon Discharge: Theoretical Study
HPH Asia’98 Conference, Singapore, 22-25 September.
Gardner, H.J. and Boswell, R.W. —- Effective Virtual Environments – Experiences with a
Low Cost Immersive System.
51st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Maui, Hawaii 19-22 October.
Charles, C. and Boswell, R.W.— Stress Reduction in Silicon Dioxide Layers by Pulsing an
Oxygen/Silane Helicon Diffusion Plasma
Chabert, P.#, Boswell, R.W. and Perrin, J.*—-Negative Ion Detection using Electostatic
Probes
Degeling, A.W., Boswell, R.W. and Sheridan, T.E.—- Model Investigations of a Helicon
Plasma Instability Driven by Neutral Depletion
Durandet, A., Monsma, B. and Boswell, R.W.— Effect of Pulsing the Plasma Source and the
Bias Power on the Deposition of Silicon Dioxide in a Helicon Assisted Reactive Evaporation
Systems
Sheridan, T.E.—-Negative Potential Solitons in a Positive Ion-Negative Ion Plasma
Sheridan, T.E. Berguiga, M.# and Boswell, R.W.—-Source Effects in a Magnetized, RF, SF6
Discharge
Smith, H.B., Charles, C. and Boswell, R.W.— Plasma Breakdown in a Capacitively-Coupled
Radiofrequency Argon Discharge
American Vacuum Society 45th International Symposium, Baltimore, USA 2-6
November.
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Boswell, R.W., Degeling, A.W. — Very High Density Helicon Mode Operation in WOMBAT
Gaff, K., Durandet, A. and Boswell, R.W.— Low Temperature Helicon Assisted Reactive
Evaporation of Sn-doped and Ge-doped Silica Films for Planar Waveguide Photonics
Division of Plasma Physics 1998 Conference, New Orleans, USA 16-20 November
Charles, C., Boswell, R.W.— Ion Energy Distribution Functions in Pulsed Plasmas
40th AINSE Anniversary Conference, Lucas Heights, Sydney, 2 and 3 December.
Harris, J.H. — Fusion Plasma Physics Research on the H-1 National Facility
(Are there other PRL contributors?)
Professor R.W. Boswell was invited to be co-leader of the round-table discussion group at the
Edge Plasma Theory and Simulation Workshop, Innsbruck, Austria 6-8 July
Dr G.G. Borg attended the Fifth Workshop on Smart Antennas for Wireless Mobile
Communications, Stanford University, USA, 23-24 July and the IEEE Global
Telecommunications Conference, Sydney, 8-12 November.
Professor J.H. Harris presented an invited lecture Research in Plasma Physics for Fusion
Energy, University of New England, 3 November.
Name of, Other seminars and lectures given by staff internationally which were not under the
umbrella of a formal conference.
Dr H.J. Gardner presented the following talks.
CIEMAT Institute, Avenida Complutense, Madrid Spain, 9 September.
-------------------------------------------------------------------The WEDGE Virtual Reality Theatre
City University, Dublin, Ireland (11 September) (invited)
------------------------------------------The Computational Science and Engineering Education Program at the Australian National
University
GMD/IMK Institut, Schloss Birlinghoven, St Augustin, Germany, 15 September
---------------------------------------------------------------------The WEDGE Immersive Projection Theatre
Springer Verlag, Tiergartenstr 17, Heidelberg, Germany, 15 September (invited).
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Case Study and Demonstration of the WEDGE Virtual Reality Theatre at the Immersive
Conditions Forum organised by deLuxe Media Arts at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 21
November 1998. (invited)
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Professor X.Y. Brown — Title of talk