For the full text and graphics version check out the DPP Education and Outreach. Other application areas include advanced microwave devices, vacuum microelectronics, relativistic electronics, materials processing, pure diamond film deposition, flat panel displays, pulsed power devices, ceramic production, space environment and impacts on technological systems such as power grids and spacecraft, production of high-temperature superconducting film, manufacture of fullerenes, metal extraction and processing, plasma thrusters, and toxic waste treatment. Plasma Science as Multi-Disciplinary Because plasma science is so highly interdisciplinary, students trained in plasma science have a broad range of technical competence. This includes, among others, the fields of optics, materials science, electrical power, electronics, statistical mechanics and kinetic theory, magnetohydrodynamics, high voltage, pulsed power, ultra-high vacuum, computer applications, spectroscopy, atomic physics, nonlinear dynamics, microwave generation, particle and fields detection, and lasers. It is the relatively new and interdisciplinary nature of plasma science which has made it difficult to integrate into existing academic and governmental structures.
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