Beyond enabling new capabilities, plasma-based techniques, characterized by quantum radicals of feed gases, hold the potential to enhance and improve many processes and applications. Following in the tradition of its popular predecessor, Plasma Electronics, Second Edition: Applications in Microelectronic Device Fabrication explains the fundamental

Toshiaki Makabe received his BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering all from Keio University. He became a Professor of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University in 1991. He also served as a guest professor at POSTECH, Ruhr University Bochum, and Xi'an Jiaotong University. He was Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology and Chair of the Graduate School from 2007 to 2009. Since 2009, he has been the Vice-President of Keio University in charge of research. He has published more than 170 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, and has given invited talks at more than 80 international conferences in the field of non-equilibrium, low-temperature plasmas and related basic transport theory, and surface processes. He is on the editorial board of Plasma Sources Science and Technology, and many times he has been a guest editor of the special issue about the low temperature plasma and the surface process of the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Australian Journal of Physics, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, and Applied Surface Science, etc. He received the awards; "Fluid Science Prize" in 2003 from the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, "Plasma Electronics Prize" in 2004 from the Japan Society of Applied Physics, "Plasma Prize" in 2006 from the American Vacuum Society, etc. He is an associate member of the Science Council of Japan, and a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics, the American Vacuum Society, the Japan Society of Applied Physics, and the Japan Federation of Engineering Societies.

Zoran Lj. Petrovic obtained his Master's degree in the Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering in the University of Belgrade, and earned his Ph.D from Au