Vacuum Physics and Techniques (Paperback, 1994 ed.)

Vacua are fundamental to a range of scientific explorations and technological processes; the range now extends from studies of the properties of atomically clean surfaces at pressures which verge on extreme ultrahigh vacuum, 10-12 mbar, to freeze drying of foodstuffs at pressures which may be only 10-1 mbar. In the pressure range between, vacua are required for TV tube production, vacuum impregnation, vacuum furnaces, vacuum coating, storage ring operation and semiconductor processing.