Cold plasmas: fundamentals and applications

Cold Rydberg gases and ultra-cold plasmas

We briefly highlight recent developments in the complementary fields of cold Rydberg gases and ultra-cold plasmas and provide a short overview of the articles in this special issue.

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Glucose-Sensitive Holographic (Bio)Sensors: Fundamentals and Applications

Nowadays sensors and especially biosensors play an important role in medical diagnosis and detection of food and environment contaminations. Biosensors’ facilities have been improved significantly by using technologies such as surface plasmon resonance, microfluidics, laser, and electrochemistry. These technologies are now available on chips in micro- and nano-scale and are capable of mea...

Fundamentals and Applications of High-pressure Induction Thermal Plasmas with Coil Current Modulation

This paper presents a summary of fundamental principles and applications of modulated induction thermal plasmas that have been developed by the author’s group. The modulated induction thermal plasma is established using a coil current that is modulated to the order of several hundreds of amperes at a millisecond time scale. Such a large current modulation enables the creation of a large disturb...

Spintronics: Fundamentals and applications

Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this subject, including both recent advances and well-established results. The primary focus is on the basic physical principles underlying the generation of carrier spin polarization, spin dynamics, and spinpolariz...