Program and abstracts of the 39th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference

The Thirty-ninth Gaseous Electronics Conference was held October 7-10, 1986 at the Wisconsin Center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. At the conference papers were presented on fundamental processes such as electron collisions, recombination, and attachment, metastable and excited-state energy transfer, photon interactions, ion and neutral collision, distribution functions, transport properties of ions and electrons, and fundamental processes in gas discharge lasers. Papers were also presented on the properties of discharges including papers on corona, glow discharges, arcs, plasma boundary interactions, plasma chemistry, plasma etching, and atmospheric chemistry. This conference provided a strong interaction between researchers in fundamental processes and applied research on gas discharge physics. Two hundred ten reports were presented.