IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
PLASMA SCIENCE
List of Currently Scheduled Special Issues

August 2009, Special Issue on Electrical Discharges in Vacuum – Guest Editors: Kenneth Struve (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA); Rene Smeets (KEMA, Arnheim, The Netherlands)

September 2009, Special Issue on Advances in Plasma Processing for Semiconductor Manufacturing – Guest Editors: Steven Shannon (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA), Shahid Rauf (Applied Materials Inc., Sunnyvale, CA USA), Alex Paterson (Lam Research Corporation, Fremont, CA USA), Ron Kinder (Novellus Systems, Inc., San Jose CA USA), & Peter L.G. Ventzek (Tokyo Electron, Austin, TX USA)

October 2009, Special Issue on High Power Particle Beams – Guest Editors: Weihua Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Bruce Weber (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC USA) & John Mankowski (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX USA)

December 2009, Special Issue on Plasma Assisted Combustion – Guest Editors: Louis Rosocha (Los Alamos National Laboratory [retired], Los Alamos, NM USA) and Igor Matveev (Applied Plasma Technologies, Falls Church, VA USA)

February 2010, Special Issue on Z-Pinch Physics  – Guest Editors: Simon Bott (University of California, San Diego, CA USA), Jerry Chittenden (Imperial College, London, UK), John Giuliani (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC USA), & Christine Coverdale (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA)

February 2010, Special Issue of Selected Papers from SOFE ‘09 – Guest Editors: David Ruzic (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. IL USA) and Jean Paul Allain (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA)

April 2010, Special Issue on Plenary and Invited papers from ICOPS-2009 – Guest Editors: Farhat Beg (University of California, San Diego, CA USA), Monica Blank (CPII, Microwave Products Division, Palo Alto, CA USA) and Michael Kong (Loughborough University, Loughborough UK)

April 2010, Special Issue on Physics of Dusty Plasmas – Guest Editors: Mihaly Horanyi (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA), Scott Robertson (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA), & Zoltan Sternovsky (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA)

June 2010, Special Issue on High Power Microwave Generation – Guest Editors: Stefano Alberti (Swiss Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland), Minh Quang Tran (Swiss Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland), and David R. Whaley (L-3 Communications – Electron Devices Division, San Carlos, CA USA)

July 2010, Special Issue on Megagauss Magnetic Fields and Their Applications – Co-Guest Editors: James Degnan (Air Force Research Labs, Albuquerque, NM USA) & Kenneth Struve (Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM USA)

August 2010, Special Issue on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas – Guest Editors: Ricardo Fonseca (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal), Luis Alves (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal), & Joao Bizarro (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)

August 2010, Special Issue on Nonthermal Medical/Biological Treatments Using Ionized Gases and Electromagnetic Fields – Guest Editors: Gregory Fridman (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA USA) and Xinpei Lu (HuaZhong University, WuHan, China)

October 2010, Special Issue on Pulsed Power Science and Technology – Guest Editors: Randy Curry (University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia MO USA), Larry Altgilbers (US Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command, Huntsville, AL USA), Paul W. Smith (Pembroke College, Oxford, UK) & Weihua Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

October 2010, Special Issue on High Power Glow Discharges – Guest Editors: Ken Yukimura (Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan) and Arutiun Ehiasarian (Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom)

December 2010, Special Issue on Plasma Assisted Combustion – Guest Editors: Louis Rosocha (Los Alamos National Laboratory [retired], Los Alamos, NM USA) and Igor Matveev (Applied Plasma Technologies, Falls Church, VA USA)

January 2011, Special Issue on Electromagnetic Launchers – Guest Editor: Harry Fair (University of Texas, Austin, TX USA)

April 2011, Special Issue on Plenary and Invited papers from ICOPS-2009 – Guest Editors: Ravindra Joshi (Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA USA), Xinpei Lu (HuaZhong University, WuHan China), & Yukinori Sakyama (University of California, Berkeley, CA USA)

For further information, please contact Steven J. Gitomer, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Senior Scientist, U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation Guest Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1428 Miracerros Loop South, Santa Fe, NM 87505 USA; Phone: +1 505 988-5751; Fax: +1 505 988-5751 (call first); E-mail: (use all) sgitomer@aol.com; sgitomer@crdf.org; sgitomer@lanl.gov; tps-editor@ieee.org