CONCLUSIONS
• Plasma discharges are widely used for materials processing and
are indispensible for microelectronics fabrication
• The coupling of the equations for the fields and the charged
particles is the key to plasma analysis
• Neutral particles play a key role in ionization, energy loss, and
diffusion processes in discharges
• The particle and energy balance relations are the key to the
analysis of discharge equilibrium
• The particle balance determines the electron temperature; the
energy balance determines the plasma density
• A transformer model along with the particle and energy balance
relations are the key to the analysis of inductive discharges