Plasma Sources Science & Technology

Article	Citations
Physics and technology of magnetron sputtering discharges	251
Enhancement of hydrogen peroxide production from an atmospheric pressure argon plasma jet and implications to the antibacterial activity of plasma activated water	58
Foundations of optical diagnostics in low-temperature plasmas	54
Physics of plasma jets and interaction with surfaces: review on modelling and experiments	54
2D radial-azimuthal particle-in-cell benchmark for E × B discharges	48
Foundations of plasmas for medical applications	46
Electric field measurements in plasmas: how focusing strongly distorts the E-FISH signal	44
Performance analysis of a 2.45 GHz microwave plasma torch for CO2 decomposition in gas swirl configuration	43
Mode transition of air surface micro-discharge and its effect on the water activation and antibacterial activity	42
Foundations of plasma surface functionalization of polymers for industrial and biological applications	42
eduPIC: an introductory particle based code for radio-frequency plasma simulation	41
Interaction of an atmospheric pressure plasma jet with grounded and floating metallic targets: simulations and experiments	39
Electron power absorption dynamics in magnetized capacitively coupled radio frequency oxygen discharges	39
Cold atmospheric single plasma jet for RONS delivery on large biological surfaces	38
Multi-hollow surface dielectric barrier discharge: an ozone generator with flexible performance and supreme efficiency	36
Controlled plasma–droplet interactions: a quantitative study of OH transfer in plasma–liquid interaction	35
Simulation of ionization-wave discharges: a direct comparison between the fluid model and E-FISH measurements	34
Mechanism and dynamics of picosecond radial breakdown of a gas-filled coaxial line	34
Foundations of capacitive and inductive radio-frequency discharges	33
Foundations of measurement of electrons, ions and species fluxes toward surfaces in low-temperature plasmas	32
High-energy ballistic electrons in low-pressure radio-frequency plasmas	31
Electrical breakdown in dual-frequency capacitively coupled plasma: a collective simulation	30
Foundations of physical vapor deposition with plasma assistance	30
Foundations of plasma catalysis for environmental applications	30
Observation of dominant Ohmic electron power absorption in capacitively coupled radio frequency argon discharges at low pressure	28

Formation and propagation of ionization waves during ns pulse breakdown in plane-to-plane geometry	28
Coupled plasma transport and electromagnetic wave simulation of an ECR thruster	28
Multi-diagnostic experimental validation of 1d3v PIC/MCC simulations of low pressure capacitive RF plasmas operated in argon	28
Insight into contraction dynamics of microwave plasmas for CO2 conversion from plasma chemistry modelling	27
A reaction mechanism for vibrationally-cold low-pressure CO2 plasmas	27
Mars in situ oxygen and propellant production by non-equilibrium plasmas	27
Benchmarked and upgraded particle-in-cell simulations of a capacitive argon discharge at intermediate pressure: the role of metastable atoms	26
Time and space resolved diagnostics for plasma thermal-chemical instability of fuel oxidation in nanosecond plasma discharges	25
Modeling of streamer-to-spark transitions in the first pulse and the post discharge stage	25
Atmospheric-pressure non-equilibrium plasmas for effective abatement of pathogenic biological aerosols	25
Electron dynamics in radio frequency magnetron sputtering argon discharges with a dielectric target	25
Magnetic confinement and instability in partially magnetized plasma	25
The formation of atomic oxygen and hydrogen in atmospheric pressure plasmas containing humidity: picosecond two-photon absorption laser induced fluorescence and numerical simulations	25
Comparing simulations and experiments of positive streamers in air: steps toward model validation	24
Pulse length selection for optimizing the accelerated ion flux fraction of a bipolar HiPIMS discharge	24
2D particle-in-cell simulations of geometrically asymmetric low-pressure capacitive RF plasmas driven by tailored voltage waveforms	23
Plasma activation of N2, CH4and CO2: an assessment of the vibrational non-equilibrium time window	23
On uniformity and non-local transport in low pressure capacitively coupled plasmas	22
Simulation of positive streamers in CO2 and in air: the role of photoionization or other electron sources	22
Plasma-assisted combustion with nanosecond discharges. I: Discharge effects characterization in the burnt gases of a lean flame	22
Numerical study of various scenarios for the formation of atmospheric pressure DC discharge characteristics in argon: from glow to arc discharge	22
Diagnostics and comparative analyzes of plasma parameters in micro hollow cathode discharges with an open and covered external surface of cathode in helium using an additional electrode	22
Spatiotemporal variations of the electrical potential on surface dielectric barrier discharges	22
Dynamics and chemical mode analysis of plasma thermal-chemical instability	22
Characterisation of a thermionic plasma source apparatus for high-density gaseous plasma antenna applications	21
2D Particle-in-cell simulations of charged particle dynamics in geometrically asymmetric low pressure capacitive RF plasmas	21
Townsend to glow discharge transition for a nanosecond pulse plasma in helium: space charge formation and resulting electric field dynamics	21
The magnetic asymmetry effect in geometrically asymmetric capacitively coupled radio frequency discharges operated in Ar/O2	21
Three-dimensional density distributions of NO in the effluent of the COST reference microplasma jet operated in He/N2/O2	20
Conversion of volatile organic compounds in a twin surface dielectric barrier discharge	20
Nanosecond pulsed discharges in distilled water: I. Continuum radiation and plasma ignition	19
Kinetics of metastable N2(A3Σu    + , v) molecules in high-pressure nonequilibrium plasmas	19
Dependence of dissipated power on applied voltage for surface barrier discharge from simplest equivalent circuit	19
HiPIMS optimization by using mixed high-power and low-power pulsing	19
Evidence of near-the-limit energy cost NO formation in atmospheric spark discharge	19
Plasma-enhanced N2 fixation in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor: effect of packing materials	19
High-energy ions from Nd:YAG laser ablation of tin microdroplets: comparison between experiment and a single-fluid hydrodynamic model	19
Guiding effect of runaway electrons in atmospheric pressure nanosecond pulsed discharge: mode transition from diffuse discharge to streamer	19
Tailored voltage waveforms applied to a capacitively coupled chlorine discharge	19
Experimental verification of deposition rate increase, with maintained high ionized flux fraction, by shortening the HiPIMS pulse	19
Plasma parameters in positive voltage pulses of bipolar HiPIMS discharge determined by Langmuir probe with a sub-microsecond time resolution	18
A three-dimensional model of streamer discharges in unsteady airflow	18
On the quasi-stationary approach to solve the electron Boltzmann equation in pulsed plasmas	18
Self-organization of touching-target current with ac voltage in atmospheric pressure plasma jet for medical application parameters	17
Suppression of nonlinear standing wave excitation via the electrical asymmetry effect	17
Computational study of simultaneous positive and negative streamer propagation in a twin surface dielectric barrier discharge via 2D PIC simulations	17
Enhancement of hydrogen radical density in atmospheric pressure plasma jet by a burst of nanosecond pulses at 1 MHz	17
Electric field determination in transient plasmas: in situ & non-invasive methods	17
Propagation of positive discharges in an air bubble having an embedded water droplet	17
Ionization waves in the PK-4 direct current neon discharge	17

Femtosecond two-photon laser-induced fluorescence imaging of atomic hydrogen in a laminar methane–air flame assisted by nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges	17
Investigation of the laser-induced breakdown plasma, acoustic vibrations and dissociation processes of water molecules caused by laser breakdown of colloidal solutions containing Ni nanoparticles	17
High frequency sheath modulation and higher harmonic generation in a low pressure very high frequency capacitively coupled plasma excited by sawtooth waveform	17
Avalanche induced rapid impedance change and electron power absorption during gas breakdown under radio-frequency excitation	17
Combination of NO x mode and O3 mode air discharges for water activation to produce a potent disinfectant	16
Direct evidence of gradient drift instability being the origin of a rotating spoke in a crossed field plasma	16
Charge neutralisation of microparticles by pulsing a low-pressure shielded spatial plasma afterglow	16
Plasma induced vibrational excitation of CH4—a window to its mode selective processing	16
Reducing energy cost of in situ nitrogen fixation in water using an arc-DBD combination	16
The role of surface charge and its decay in surface dielectric barrier discharges	16
Electrical asymmetry effect in inhomogeneously magnetized capacitively coupled plasmas	16
Observation of electron runaway in a tip-plane air gap under negative nanosecond pulse voltage by PIC/MCC simulation	16
The interaction between ion transit-time and electron drift instabilities and their effect on anomalous electron transport in Hall thrusters	16
A novel designed 3D multi-microhole plasma jet device driven by nanosecond pulse at atmospheric pressure	16
Electrically isolated propagating streamer heads formed by strong electron attachment	16
A computational study of steady and stagnating positive streamers in N2–O2 mixtures	16
On the electron energy distribution function in the high power impulse magnetron sputtering discharge	15
Water and xenon ECR ion thruster—comparison in global model and experiment	15
Evidence, origin and impact of liquid flows in plasma medicine in vitro treatments with APPJs	15
Thermal instability and volume contraction in a pulsed microwave N2 plasma at sub-atmospheric pressure	15
Particle charge distributions in the effluent of a flow-through atmospheric pressure low temperature plasma	15
Peculiarities of spatial relaxation of the mean electron energy in inert gases and their mixtures in a uniform electric field	15
Electron power absorption in radio frequency driven capacitively coupled chlorine discharge	15
On the efficiency of CO2 conversion in corona and dielectric-barrier discharges	15
Spectro-temporal comparisons of optical emission, absorption, and laser-induced fluorescence for characterizing ns and fs laser-produced plasmas	15
Evolution of the uniformity in the repetitive unipolar nanosecond-pulse dielectric barrier discharge	15
Comprehensive understanding of the ignition process of a pulsed capacitively coupled radio frequency discharge: the effect of power-off duration	15
Use of plasma electron spectroscopy method to detect hydrocarbons, alcohols, and ammonia in nonlocal plasma of short glow discharge	15
Rescaling the complex network of low-temperature plasma chemistry through graph-theoretical analysis	14
Effect of the electric field profile on the accuracy of E-FISH measurements in ionization waves	14
Transient non-classical transport in the hollow cathode plume I: measurements of time-varying electron collision frequency	14
Foundations of atomic-level plasma processing in nanoelectronics	14
A revised comprehensive approach for determining the H2 and D2 rovibrational population from the Fulcher-α emission in low temperature plasmas	14
DPEx-II: a new dusty plasma device capable of producing large sized DC coulomb crystals	14
PISCES-RF: a liquid-cooled high-power steady-state helicon plasma device	14
A comparison of particle and fluid models for positive streamer discharges in air	14
Streamer propagation along a profiled dielectric surface	14
Interaction of helium plasma jet with tilted targets: consequences of target permittivity, conductivity and incidence angle	14
Global plasma modeling of a magnetized high-frequency plasma source in low-pressure nitrogen and oxygen for air-breathing electric propulsion applications	14
Zero-dimensional and pseudo-one-dimensional models of atmospheric-pressure plasma jets in binary and ternary mixtures of oxygen and nitrogen with helium background	14
Compositions and distributions of the azimuthal currents in the magnetic nozzle	14
The variation in self-organized anode plasma pattern structure with solution electrolyte type in 1 atm DC glow discharge	14
Ion energy distribution functions in a dual-frequency low-pressure capacitively-coupled plasma: experiments and particle-in-cell simulation	14
The spatial distribution of hydrogen and oxygen atoms in a cold atmospheric pressure plasma jet	14
Helicon wave plasma generated by a resonant birdcage antenna: magnetic field measurements and analysis in the RAID linear device	14
Time-resolved imaging of pulsed positive nanosecond discharge on water surface: plasma dots guided by water surface	14
Electron collision cross section set for N2 and electron transport in N2, N2/He, and N2/Ar	14
Selective generation of excited species in ns pulse/RF hybrid plasmas for plasma chemistry applications	14
Surface ionization waves propagating over non-planar substrates: wavy surfaces, cut-pores and droplets	13
Double-propagation mode in short-gap spark discharges driven by HV pulses with sub-ns rise time	13
Fast gas heating and kinetics of electronically excited states in a nanosecond capillary discharge in CO2	13
Plasma dynamics, instabilities and OH generation in a pulsed atmospheric pressure plasma with liquid cathode: a diagnostic study	13
Insights into the limitations to vibrational excitation of CO2: validation of a kinetic model with pulsed glow discharge experiments	13
Fully kinetic model of plasma expansion in a magnetic nozzle	13
Controlling: the composition of plasma-activated water by Cu ions	13
Electric field development in positive and negative streamers on dielectric surface	13
N2 vibrational excitation in atmospheric pressure ns pulse and RF plasma jets	13
Modeling of fast ionization waves in pure nitrogen at moderate pressure	13
Time-dependent expansion of a weakly-collisional plasma beam in a paraxial magnetic nozzle	13
Micro atmospheric pressure plasma jets excited in He/O2 by voltage waveform tailoring: a study based on a numerical hybrid model and experiments	13
Fluid-kinetic model of a propulsive magnetic nozzle	13
Kinetic insights into thrust generation and electron transport in a magnetic nozzle	12
Experimental confirmation of solvated electron concentration and penetration scaling at a plasma–liquid interface	12
Intrasheath electron dynamics in low pressure capacitively coupled plasmas	12
Coherent microwave scattering from resonance enhanced multi-photon ionization (radar REMPI): a review	12
Decoupling ion energy and flux in intermediate pressure capacitively coupled plasmas via tailored voltage waveforms	12
Nanosecond pulsed discharges in distilled water-Part II: line emission and plasma propagation	12
Neutral dissociation of methane by electron impact and a complete and consistent cross section set	11
Revisiting the numerical stability/accuracy conditions of explicit PIC/MCC simulations of low-temperature gas discharges	11
Morphology evolution of an atmospheric pressure glow discharge initiated in the air gap between a liquid cathode and a needle anode	11
Measurements of atoms and metastable species in N2 and H2–N2 nanosecond pulse plasmas	11
Structure of microwave plasma-torch discharge during graphene synthesis from ethanol	11
Distribution of inception times in repetitive pulsed discharges in synthetic air	11
Time-resolved optical emission spectroscopy in CO2 nanosecond pulsed discharges	11
Nitrogen fixation in pulsed microwave discharge studied by infrared absorption combined with modelling	11
Plasma thermal-chemical instability of low-temperature dimethyl ether oxidation in a nanosecond-pulsed dielectric barrier discharge	11
Dynamics of bipolar HiPIMS discharges by plasma potential probe measurements	11
Electron sink on the Langmuir probe in plasma, its influence on measurements and methods to account for it	11
Tunable annular plasma photonic crystals in dielectric barrier discharge	11
The role of excited electronic states in ambient air ionization by a nanosecond discharge	11

Influence of aerosol injection on the liquid chemistry induced by an RF argon plasma jet	11
The spatial distribution of HO2 in an atmospheric pressure plasma jet investigated by cavity ring-down spectroscopy	11
Measurement of the two-photon excitation cross-section of the 6p′[3/2]2 and 6p′[1/2]0 levels of Xe I at the wavelengths 224.3 and 222.6 nm	11
Discharge dynamics, plasma kinetics and gas flow effect in argon–acetylene discharges	11
Complex plasma in a stratified glow discharge in a strong magnetic field	11
Frequency dependencies of the characteristics of an inductively coupled radiofrequency discharge at reduced pressure	11
Charged particle kinetics and gas heating in CO2 microwave plasma contraction: comparisons of simulations and experiments	11
The 2021 release of the Quantemol database (QDB) of plasma chemistries and reactions	11
Periodical discharge regime transitions under long-term repetitive nanosecond pulses	11
Dual frequency DBD: influence of the amplitude and the frequency of applied voltages on glow, Townsend and radiofrequency DBDs	11
Investigation of plasma properties in the phase of the radial expansion of a spark channel in the ‘pin-to-plate’ geometry	11
Review of the gas breakdown physics and nanomaterial-based ionization gas sensors and their applications	11
Quenching of O2(b1Σg + ) by O(3P) atoms. Effect of gas temperature	10
Time evolution of neutral and charged species in Ar/C2H2 capacitively-coupled RF discharges	10
Nonlinear harmonic excitations in collisional, asymmetrically-driven capacitive discharges	10
The influence of humidity on positive streamer propagation in long air gap	10
Power law fitting of the ion saturation current and the three-temperature Maxwellian EEDF in a multi-dipole confined hot cathode discharge: an experimental revisitation	10
N2–H2 capacitively coupled radio-frequency discharges at low pressure: II. Modeling results: the relevance of plasma-surface interaction	10
A minimally invasive electrostatic particle extractor for nanodusty plasmas and its application for the verification of in situ Mie polarimetry	10
Streak investigations of the dynamics of subnanosecond discharge developing in nitrogen at a pressure of 6 atm with the participation of runaway electrons	10
Formation of inverse EDF in glow discharges with an inhomogeneous electric field	10
Characterizing the plasma-induced thermal loads on a 200 kW light-ion helicon plasma source via infra-red thermography	10
Research on plasma electron density distribution based on microwave diffraction	10
A positively biased external anode for energy control of plasma ions: hollow cathode and magnetron sputtering discharge	10
Kinetic theory of high-voltage low-pressure gas discharge with electron initiation on a cathode in a planar gap	10
N–H collision integrals with study of repulsive interactions	10
Dry reforming of methane in a nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharge: chemical kinetics modeling	10
Investigations of positive streamers as quasi-steady structures using reduced order models	10
Review and current status: E ⇌ H mode transition in low-temperature ICP and related electron dynamics	10
Foundations and interpretations of the pulsed-Townsend experiment	10
Simulation study on an atmospheric pressure plasma jet interacting with a single fiber: effects of the fiber’s permittivity	10
High-resolution observation of cathode spots in a magnetically steered vacuum arc plasma source	10
Experimental study on controlled production of two-electron temperature plasma	10
A self-consistent hybrid model of kinetic striations in low-current argon discharges	10
Plasma-droplet interaction study to assess transport limitations and the role of ⋅OH, O⋅,H⋅,O2(a 1Δg),O3, He	10
Fast quenching of metastable O2(a 1Δ g ) and O2(b 1Σ g	10
Resolving discharge parameters from atomic oxygen emission	10
Wave propagation and absorption in a helicon plasma thruster and its plume	10
Energy efficiency of voltage waveform tailoring for the generation of excited species in RF plasma jets operated in He/N2 mixtures	10
Model for the dependence of cathode voltage in a Hall thruster on facility pressure	10
A computational study of accelerating, steady and fading negative streamers in ambient air	10
Surface effects in a capacitive argon discharge in the intermediate pressure regime	10
Electron interactions with tetramethylsilane from the ionization threshold up to 5000 eV	10
Electric field reversals resulting from voltage waveform tailoring in Ar/O2 capacitively coupled plasmas sustained in asymmetric systems	10
Characterization of electric discharge collocated with gas jet in supersonic airflow	9
Space-charge induced particle reflection between hybrid AC/DC biased electrodes	9
Effect of anisotropic scattering for rotational collisions on electron transport parameters in CO	9
Experimental validity of double-curling probe method in film-depositing plasma	9
Measurements and interpretation of EEDF in a discharge with a hollow cathode in helium: effect of the measuring probe and the anode on the form of the distribution function	9
Simulations of positive streamers in air in different electric fields: steady motion of solitary streamer heads and the stability field	9
Velocity distribution of metal ions in the target region of HiPIMS: the role of Coulomb collisions	9
Transition mechanisms between selective O3 and NO x generation modes in atmospheric-pressure plasmas: decoupling specific discharge energy and g	9
Atmospheric pressure dual RF–LF frequency discharge: transition from α to α – γ -mode	9
Magnetized fluid electron model within a two-dimensional hybrid simulation code for electrodeless plasma thrusters	9
Emission spectroscopic diagnostics of weakly ionized argon-diluted plasmas: glow discharge and inductively coupled plasma	9
Vibrational quenching by water in a CO2 glow discharge measured using quantum cascade laser absorption spectroscopy	9
Disentangling dark and luminous phases of nanosecond discharges developing in liquid water	9
Self-consistent fluid model for simulating power coupling in hydrogen ICPs at 1 MHz including the nonlinear RF Lorentz force	9
Influence of voltage and gap distance on the dynamics of the ionization front, plasma dots, produced by nanosecond pulsed discharges at water surface	9
Analysis of cavities characteristics of underwater pulsed current discharge	9
μs and ns twin surface dielectric barrier discharges operated in air: from electrode erosion to plasma characteristics	9
Application of the catalytic probe method for measuring the concentration of oxygen atoms in Ar/O2 plasma of a low-pressure arc	9
Energy transfer in interaction of a cold atmospheric pressure plasma jet with substrates	9
Molecular dynamics simulation of amine groups formation during plasma processing of polystyrene surfaces	9
Magnetic attenuation of the self-excitation of the plasma series resonance in low-pressure capacitively coupled discharges	9
A binary-encounter-Bethe approach to compute electron-impact partial ionization cross sections of plasma relevant molecules such as hexamethyldisiloxane and silane	9
Nanosecond pulsed discharge dynamics during passage of a transient laminar flame	9
Multidimensional modeling of non-equilibrium plasma generated by a radio-frequency corona discharge	9
Radio-frequency biasing of ion acceleration grids with different propellants	9
Diagnosing asymmetric bipolar HiPIMS discharges using laser Thomson scattering	9
Determination of organic impurities by plasma electron spectroscopy in nonlocal plasma at intermediate and high pressures	9
Foundations of machine learning for low-temperature plasmas: methods and case studies	9
Particle-in-cell simulations of the alpha and gamma modes in collisional nitrogen capacitive discharges	9
Transition from ballistic to thermalized transport of metal-sputtered species in a DC magnetron	9
Modeling inductive radio frequency coupling in powerful negative hydrogen ion sources: validating a self-consistent fluid model	9
Kinetic investigation of plasma catalytic synthesis of ammonia: insights into the role of excited states and plasma-enhanced surface chemistry	9
Electron dynamics in planar radio frequency magnetron plasmas: II. Heating and energization mechanisms studied via a 2d3v particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo code	9
Foundations of plasma standards	9
Three-dimensional tomographically reconstructed optical emission profiles of Hall thruster plasmas	8
Evolutions of repetitively pulsed positive streamer discharge in electronegative gas mixtures at high pressure	8
High current ion beam formation with strongly inhomogeneous electrostatic field	8
Axial momentum gains of ions and electrons in magnetic nozzle acceleration	8
New method of unipolar THz pulses generation in photoionized xenon plasma	8
Multiphase modeling of the DC plasma–water interface: application to hydrogen peroxide generation with experimental validation	8
Continuous gas temperature measurement of cold plasma jets containing microdroplets, using a focussed spot IR sensor	8
Anode spots of low current gliding arc plasmatron	8
Circuit model for flat cut-off probes with coplanar capacitance	8
Electron power absorption in micro atmospheric pressure plasma jets driven by tailored voltage waveforms in He/N2	8
Plasma plume expansion with pulsed electron neutralization	8
Vibrational deactivation in O(3P) + N2 collisions: from an old problem towards its solution	8
Similarity properties in capacitive radio frequency plasmas with nonlinear collision processes	8
On the determination of the vibrational temperature by optical emission spectroscopy	8
Development and validation of an iodine plasma model for gridded ion thrusters	8
Formation and neutralization of electric charge and current of an ion thruster plume	8
Spoke-resolved electron density, temperature and potential in direct current magnetron sputtering and HiPIMS discharges	8