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Theory

The Plasma Parameters are:
- Gas mixture
- Plasma temperature
- Particle density
- Ionization, dissociation...

 The Substrate Parameters are:
- Plasma interaction
- Sputtering, etching, cleaning, coating...
- Temperature
- Surface activity....

Optical Emission Spectroscopy is the only
diagnostic method that could determine:

- Particle densities

- Electron densities

- Electron temperature

The Line intensity correlates with particle density and electron density.

The Intensity ratio yields particle density. Clever combination of lines of the same electron energy absorption compared to a third line gives back the correlation of the electron temperature.

Now we have erverything we need to control fully all of our plasma process relavant parameters.