PLASMA has been used to fabricate metal for many years, both for cutting and welding. Gaseous matter that is electrically charged, or ionized, plasma is fundamentally different from other gases because an electric field can be used to accelerate it and direct it at a target. This is what happens in a plasma annealing chamber-an electric field accelerates ions toward the surface of the processed material and electrons toward the edge of the heating chamber.
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