Eight reviews written especially for the series by scientists mostly from Russia and eastern Europe, but also Brazil and Japan, look at such topics as the production of C2 hydrocarbons from methane conversion in the flowing afterglow of a di-nitrogen microwave plasma, magnetosonic solitary waves and jumps in a cold plasma, plasma-wave instability under external fields from a quantum mechanical viewpoint, and measuring ion density using quantitative spectroscopy. The papers are reproduced from typescripts, several of them double spaced.

CONTENTS: Electrical breakdown in a mixed gas in connection with application to the plasma display panel
Behavior of glow and microwave discharges of oxygen
Modeling network for argon glow discharge plasmas with copper cathode
Spectroscopic measurement of electron temperature and density in argon plasmas based on collisional radiative model
Multiharmonic treatment of non-resonant growing of electromagnetic wave amplified by energetic electrons with ring-beam distribution
Advances in plasma position and shape diagnostics in tokamaks
Nonlinear hydromagnetic surface waves instability in porous media
Electrostatic waves in bounded dusty plasmas
Electrical breakdown in a mixed gas in connection with application to the plasma display panel
Behavior of glow and microwave discharges of oxygen
Modeling network for argon glow discharge plasmas with copper cathode
Spectroscopic measurement of electron temperature and density in argon plasmas based on collisional radiative model
Multiharmonic treatment of non-resonant growing of electromagnetic wave amplified by energetic electrons with ring-beam distribution
Advances in plasma position and shape diagnostics in tokamaks
Nonlinear hydromagnetic surface waves instability in porous media
Electrostatic waves in bounded dusty plasmas.