Table of Contents

Part I: Background

    What IS Plasma?....................................................................................p2

    Plasma Confinement:  The Criterion......................................................p3

    The Magnetic Paradigm:  Inherent Problems.........................................p4

    Laser Inertial Confinement....................................................................p5

    Inertial Electrostatic Confinement:  A More Modest Approach.............p6

        IEC:  What it Is, How it Works.............................................................p7

        IEC:  The Cathode Space, Where it All Happens..................................p8

        IEC:  The Cathode Space, A More Rigorous Explanation....................p9

        IEC:  Ion Re-circulation...Star Mode!...............................................p11

Part II:  Design Criteria

    Original Criteria, Revisions and Omissons............................................p12

    Problems and Solutions

        1.  Vacuum Problems.........................................................................p13

        2.  High Voltage Design Problems: Power Supplies ............................p14

        3.  Miscellaneous High Voltage Design Problems................................p15

        4.  Misc. HV Design Problems B: Cracks and Sharp Edges..................p16

Part III:  Confirmation

      A. Methodology, Theory and B. Practice..............................................p18

      C. Conclusions.....................................................................................p19

Bibliography

Acknowledgements