The biennial RF Conference covers all of the applications of radio frequency power to plasmas. Scientists from a large number of institutions worldwide presented papers related to theoretical and experimental subjects. Topics include: basic RF wave physics, fusion plasmas, plasma sources for material processing, and ionospheric and astrophysical RF interactions. Papers on the technical aspects of RF systems are also presented.

The papers presented here report on the use of radio frequency (RF) waves for heating and driving electrical currents in magnetically confined plasmas for fusion energy research, including ITER, as well as on important applications of RF waves in related fields such as plasma processing, accelerators and medical devices.

Includes the most recent research advances in the application of RF power in plasmas, mainly in fusion science.

Clearwater, Florida, 7-9 May 2007

In these proceedings of the April 2005 conference participants describe their current research in the theories, computations, and applications of radio frequency power in plasmas for fusion, space propulsion and material processing. Many of the papers describe solutions in tokamak geometries where phenomena to be modeled ranged from mm to tens of centimeters and self-consistent models of energetic particles and waves, with about half the papers describing work in ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF). Other topics include lower hybrid ranges of frequencies, electron Bernstein ranges of frequencies, electron cyclotron ranges of frequencies and RF plasma applications. Annotation :2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The proceedings of the Ninth Topical Conference on [title], held in Charleston, SC, August 1991, comprise invited and contributed papers on topics in the areas of electron cyclotron range of frequencies, lower hybrid range of frequencies, ion cyclotron range of frequencies, current drive, RF technol