Plasma Sources Science & Technology

Papers
(The median citation count of Plasma Sources Science & Technology is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Physics and technology of magnetron sputtering discharges228
Enhancement of hydrogen peroxide production from an atmospheric pressure argon plasma jet and implications to the antibacterial activity of plasma activated water55
Foundations of optical diagnostics in low-temperature plasmas51
2D radial-azimuthal particle-in-cell benchmark for E × B discharges42
Mode transition of air surface micro-discharge and its effect on the water activation and antibacterial activity40
Physics of plasma jets and interaction with surfaces: review on modelling and experiments40
Foundations of plasmas for medical applications39
Performance analysis of a 2.45 GHz microwave plasma torch for CO2 decomposition in gas swirl configuration38
Cold atmospheric single plasma jet for RONS delivery on large biological surfaces38
Electric field measurements in plasmas: how focusing strongly distorts the E-FISH signal38
Analysis of the C2 ( d 3 Π g − a 3 Π u ) Swan bands as a thermometric probe in CO2 microwave plasmas37
Interaction of an atmospheric pressure plasma jet with grounded and floating metallic targets: simulations and experiments35
Foundations of plasma surface functionalization of polymers for industrial and biological applications35
Electron power absorption dynamics in magnetized capacitively coupled radio frequency oxygen discharges34
eduPIC: an introductory particle based code for radio-frequency plasma simulation33
Controlled plasma–droplet interactions: a quantitative study of OH transfer in plasma–liquid interaction33
Multi-hollow surface dielectric barrier discharge: an ozone generator with flexible performance and supreme efficiency32
High-energy ballistic electrons in low-pressure radio-frequency plasmas29
Foundations of capacitive and inductive radio-frequency discharges29
Foundations of measurement of electrons, ions and species fluxes toward surfaces in low-temperature plasmas29
Formation and propagation of ionization waves during ns pulse breakdown in plane-to-plane geometry28
Simulation of ionization-wave discharges: a direct comparison between the fluid model and E-FISH measurements28
Macroscopic and parametric study of a kinetic plasma expansion in a paraxial magnetic nozzle28
Foundations of plasma catalysis for environmental applications27
Electrical breakdown in dual-frequency capacitively coupled plasma: a collective simulation27
Observation of dominant Ohmic electron power absorption in capacitively coupled radio frequency argon discharges at low pressure26
Mars in situ oxygen and propellant production by non-equilibrium plasmas26
Negative ion source operation with deuterium26
Coupled plasma transport and electromagnetic wave simulation of an ECR thruster25
Electron density, temperature and the potential structure of spokes in HiPIMS25
Mechanism and dynamics of picosecond radial breakdown of a gas-filled coaxial line25
A reaction mechanism for vibrationally-cold low-pressure CO2 plasmas25
Multi-diagnostic experimental validation of 1d3v PIC/MCC simulations of low pressure capacitive RF plasmas operated in argon24
Insight into contraction dynamics of microwave plasmas for CO2 conversion from plasma chemistry modelling24
Atmospheric-pressure non-equilibrium plasmas for effective abatement of pathogenic biological aerosols24
Time and space resolved diagnostics for plasma thermal-chemical instability of fuel oxidation in nanosecond plasma discharges24
Foundations of physical vapor deposition with plasma assistance24
Magnetic confinement and instability in partially magnetized plasma24
Comparing simulations and experiments of positive streamers in air: steps toward model validation23
Modeling of streamer-to-spark transitions in the first pulse and the post discharge stage23
Pulse length selection for optimizing the accelerated ion flux fraction of a bipolar HiPIMS discharge23
Benchmarked and upgraded particle-in-cell simulations of a capacitive argon discharge at intermediate pressure: the role of metastable atoms23
Plasma activation of N2, CH4and CO2: an assessment of the vibrational non-equilibrium time window22
Simulation of positive streamers in CO2 and in air: the role of photoionization or other electron sources21
The formation of atomic oxygen and hydrogen in atmospheric pressure plasmas containing humidity: picosecond two-photon absorption laser induced fluorescence and numerical simulations21
Conversion of volatile organic compounds in a twin surface dielectric barrier discharge20
Characterisation of a thermionic plasma source apparatus for high-density gaseous plasma antenna applications20
Townsend to glow discharge transition for a nanosecond pulse plasma in helium: space charge formation and resulting electric field dynamics20
2D particle-in-cell simulations of geometrically asymmetric low-pressure capacitive RF plasmas driven by tailored voltage waveforms20
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 electrode20
The magnetic asymmetry effect in geometrically asymmetric capacitively coupled radio frequency discharges operated in Ar/O220
Electron dynamics in radio frequency magnetron sputtering argon discharges with a dielectric target20
2D Particle-in-cell simulations of charged particle dynamics in geometrically asymmetric low pressure capacitive RF plasmas20
Spatiotemporal variations of the electrical potential on surface dielectric barrier discharges20
Numerical study of various scenarios for the formation of atmospheric pressure DC discharge characteristics in argon: from glow to arc discharge20
On uniformity and non-local transport in low pressure capacitively coupled plasmas19
Electron number density measurements in nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges in water vapor at atmospheric pressure19
Dependence of dissipated power on applied voltage for surface barrier discharge from simplest equivalent circuit19
Dynamics and chemical mode analysis of plasma thermal-chemical instability19
HiPIMS optimization by using mixed high-power and low-power pulsing19
Flat cutoff probe for real-time electron density measurement in industrial plasma processing19
Plasma-assisted combustion with nanosecond discharges. I: Discharge effects characterization in the burnt gases of a lean flame18
Nanosecond pulsed discharges in distilled water: I. Continuum radiation and plasma ignition18
Plasma-enhanced N2 fixation in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor: effect of packing materials18
Experimental verification of deposition rate increase, with maintained high ionized flux fraction, by shortening the HiPIMS pulse18
Plasma parameters in positive voltage pulses of bipolar HiPIMS discharge determined by Langmuir probe with a sub-microsecond time resolution18
Kinetics of metastable N2(A3Σu    + , v) molecules in high-pressure nonequilibrium plasmas18
Evidence of near-the-limit energy cost NO formation in atmospheric spark discharge18
A three-dimensional model of streamer discharges in unsteady airflow18
Ionization waves in the PK-4 direct current neon discharge17
Tailored voltage waveforms applied to a capacitively coupled chlorine discharge17
High-energy ions from Nd:YAG laser ablation of tin microdroplets: comparison between experiment and a single-fluid hydrodynamic model17
On the quasi-stationary approach to solve the electron Boltzmann equation in pulsed plasmas16
Investigation of the laser-induced breakdown plasma, acoustic vibrations and dissociation processes of water molecules caused by laser breakdown of colloidal solutions containing Ni nanoparticles16
Three-dimensional density distributions of NO in the effluent of the COST reference microplasma jet operated in He/N2/O216
Electrically isolated propagating streamer heads formed by strong electron attachment16
Electric field determination in transient plasmas: in situ & non-invasive methods16
High frequency sheath modulation and higher harmonic generation in a low pressure very high frequency capacitively coupled plasma excited by sawtooth waveform16
Avalanche induced rapid impedance change and electron power absorption during gas breakdown under radio-frequency excitation16
Enhancement of hydrogen radical density in atmospheric pressure plasma jet by a burst of nanosecond pulses at 1 MHz16
Electrical asymmetry effect in inhomogeneously magnetized capacitively coupled plasmas16
Plasma induced vibrational excitation of CH4—a window to its mode selective processing15
Femtosecond two-photon laser-induced fluorescence imaging of atomic hydrogen in a laminar methane–air flame assisted by nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges15
The role of surface charge and its decay in surface dielectric barrier discharges15
Suppression of nonlinear standing wave excitation via the electrical asymmetry effect15
Direct evidence of gradient drift instability being the origin of a rotating spoke in a crossed field plasma15
On the electron energy distribution function in the high power impulse magnetron sputtering discharge15
Water and xenon ECR ion thruster—comparison in global model and experiment15
A novel designed 3D multi-microhole plasma jet device driven by nanosecond pulse at atmospheric pressure15
Self-organization of touching-target current with ac voltage in atmospheric pressure plasma jet for medical application parameters14
Observation of electron runaway in a tip-plane air gap under negative nanosecond pulse voltage by PIC/MCC simulation14
Electron collision cross section set for N2 and electron transport in N2, N2/He, and N2/Ar14
Evolution of the uniformity in the repetitive unipolar nanosecond-pulse dielectric barrier discharge14
Propagation of positive discharges in an air bubble having an embedded water droplet14
Computational study of simultaneous positive and negative streamer propagation in a twin surface dielectric barrier discharge via 2D PIC simulations14
On the efficiency of CO2 conversion in corona and dielectric-barrier discharges14
Particle charge distributions in the effluent of a flow-through atmospheric pressure low temperature plasma14
Spectro-temporal comparisons of optical emission, absorption, and laser-induced fluorescence for characterizing ns and fs laser-produced plasmas14
DPEx-II: a new dusty plasma device capable of producing large sized DC coulomb crystals14
Combination of NO x mode and O3 mode air discharges for water activation to produce a potent disinfectant14
The variation in self-organized anode plasma pattern structure with solution electrolyte type in 1 atm DC glow discharge14
Charge neutralisation of microparticles by pulsing a low-pressure shielded spatial plasma afterglow14
The spatial distribution of hydrogen and oxygen atoms in a cold atmospheric pressure plasma jet14
A computational study of steady and stagnating positive streamers in N2–O2 mixtures14
A revised comprehensive approach for determining the H2 and D2 rovibrational population from the Fulcher-α emission in low temperature plasmas14
Peculiarities of spatial relaxation of the mean electron energy in inert gases and their mixtures in a uniform electric field14
The emission of energetic electrons from the complex streamer corona adjacent to leader stepping14
Compositions and distributions of the azimuthal currents in the magnetic nozzle14
Thermal instability and volume contraction in a pulsed microwave N2 plasma at sub-atmospheric pressure14
The interaction between ion transit-time and electron drift instabilities and their effect on anomalous electron transport in Hall thrusters13
PISCES-RF: a liquid-cooled high-power steady-state helicon plasma device13
Effect of the electric field profile on the accuracy of E-FISH measurements in ionization waves13
Transient non-classical transport in the hollow cathode plume I: measurements of time-varying electron collision frequency13
Reducing energy cost of in situ nitrogen fixation in water using an arc-DBD combination13
Modeling of fast ionization waves in pure nitrogen at moderate pressure13
Selective generation of excited species in ns pulse/RF hybrid plasmas for plasma chemistry applications13
Micro atmospheric pressure plasma jets excited in He/O2 by voltage waveform tailoring: a study based on a numerical hybrid model and experiments13
Foundations of atomic-level plasma processing in nanoelectronics13
Global plasma modeling of a magnetized high-frequency plasma source in low-pressure nitrogen and oxygen for air-breathing electric propulsion applications13
Electron power absorption in radio frequency driven capacitively coupled chlorine discharge13
Comprehensive understanding of the ignition process of a pulsed capacitively coupled radio frequency discharge: the effect of power-off duration13
Guiding effect of runaway electrons in atmospheric pressure nanosecond pulsed discharge: mode transition from diffuse discharge to streamer13
Helicon wave plasma generated by a resonant birdcage antenna: magnetic field measurements and analysis in the RAID linear device13
Zero-dimensional and pseudo-one-dimensional models of atmospheric-pressure plasma jets in binary and ternary mixtures of oxygen and nitrogen with helium background12
Ion energy distribution functions in a dual-frequency low-pressure capacitively-coupled plasma: experiments and particle-in-cell simulation12
Electric field development in positive and negative streamers on dielectric surface12
Insights into the limitations to vibrational excitation of CO2: validation of a kinetic model with pulsed glow discharge experiments12
Influence of sputtered species ionisation on the hysteresis behaviour of reactive HiPIMS with oxygen admixture12
Modeling and plasma characteristics of high-power direct current discharge12
Rescaling the complex network of low-temperature plasma chemistry through graph-theoretical analysis12
Evidence, origin and impact of liquid flows in plasma medicine in vitro treatments with APPJs12
Use of plasma electron spectroscopy method to detect hydrocarbons, alcohols, and ammonia in nonlocal plasma of short glow discharge12
Fully kinetic model of plasma expansion in a magnetic nozzle12
Double-propagation mode in short-gap spark discharges driven by HV pulses with sub-ns rise time12
Plasma dynamics, instabilities and OH generation in a pulsed atmospheric pressure plasma with liquid cathode: a diagnostic study12
Interaction of helium plasma jet with tilted targets: consequences of target permittivity, conductivity and incidence angle12
Coherent microwave scattering from resonance enhanced multi-photon ionization (radar REMPI): a review12
Morphology evolution of an atmospheric pressure glow discharge initiated in the air gap between a liquid cathode and a needle anode11
Intrasheath electron dynamics in low pressure capacitively coupled plasmas11
Time-dependent expansion of a weakly-collisional plasma beam in a paraxial magnetic nozzle11
Time-resolved optical emission spectroscopy in CO2 nanosecond pulsed discharges11
A comparison of particle and fluid models for positive streamer discharges in air11
Streamer propagation along a profiled dielectric surface11
Kinetic insights into thrust generation and electron transport in a magnetic nozzle11
Experimental confirmation of solvated electron concentration and penetration scaling at a plasma–liquid interface11
Spectroscopic study of plasma nitrocarburizing processes with an industrial-scale carbon active screen11
Determination of atomic oxygen state densities in a double inductively coupled plasma using optical emission and absorption spectroscopy and probe measurements11
Plasma thermal-chemical instability of low-temperature dimethyl ether oxidation in a nanosecond-pulsed dielectric barrier discharge11
Fast gas heating and kinetics of electronically excited states in a nanosecond capillary discharge in CO211
Time-resolved imaging of pulsed positive nanosecond discharge on water surface: plasma dots guided by water surface11
The role of excited electronic states in ambient air ionization by a nanosecond discharge11
Structure of microwave plasma-torch discharge during graphene synthesis from ethanol11
Controlling: the composition of plasma-activated water by Cu ions11
N2 vibrational excitation in atmospheric pressure ns pulse and RF plasma jets11
Nanosecond pulsed discharges in distilled water-Part II: line emission and plasma propagation11
Wave propagation and absorption in a helicon plasma thruster and its plume10
The 2021 release of the Quantemol database (QDB) of plasma chemistries and reactions10
Characterizing the plasma-induced thermal loads on a 200 kW light-ion helicon plasma source via infra-red thermography10
Review of the gas breakdown physics and nanomaterial-based ionization gas sensors and their applications10
Energy efficiency of voltage waveform tailoring for the generation of excited species in RF plasma jets operated in He/N2 mixtures10
Power law fitting of the ion saturation current and the three-temperature Maxwellian EEDF in a multi-dipole confined hot cathode discharge: an experimental revisitation10
Investigation of plasma properties in the phase of the radial expansion of a spark channel in the ‘pin-to-plate’ geometry10
Distribution of inception times in repetitive pulsed discharges in synthetic air10
Neutral dissociation of methane by electron impact and a complete and consistent cross section set10
Electron sink on the Langmuir probe in plasma, its influence on measurements and methods to account for it10
Model for the dependence of cathode voltage in a Hall thruster on facility pressure10
The spatial distribution of HO2 in an atmospheric pressure plasma jet investigated by cavity ring-down spectroscopy10
Electron interactions with tetramethylsilane from the ionization threshold up to 5000 eV10
Plasma-droplet interaction study to assess transport limitations and the role of OH, O,H,O2(a 1Δg),O3, He10
Dynamics of bipolar HiPIMS discharges by plasma potential probe measurements9
Frequency dependencies of the characteristics of an inductively coupled radiofrequency discharge at reduced pressure9
Multidimensional modeling of non-equilibrium plasma generated by a radio-frequency corona discharge9
Charged particle kinetics and gas heating in CO2 microwave plasma contraction: comparisons of simulations and experiments9
Kinetic theory of high-voltage low-pressure gas discharge with electron initiation on a cathode in a planar gap9
Application of the catalytic probe method for measuring the concentration of oxygen atoms in Ar/O2 plasma of a low-pressure arc9
Fluid-kinetic model of a propulsive magnetic nozzle9
Periodical discharge regime transitions under long-term repetitive nanosecond pulses9
High-resolution observation of cathode spots in a magnetically steered vacuum arc plasma source9
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 nm9
A binary-encounter-Bethe approach to compute electron-impact partial ionization cross sections of plasma relevant molecules such as hexamethyldisiloxane and silane9
Investigations of positive streamers as quasi-steady structures using reduced order models9
N2–H2 capacitively coupled radio-frequency discharges at low pressure: II. Modeling results: the relevance of plasma-surface interaction9
Nitrogen fixation in pulsed microwave discharge studied by infrared absorption combined with modelling9
Particle-in-cell simulations of the alpha and gamma modes in collisional nitrogen capacitive discharges9
Self-consistent fluid model for simulating power coupling in hydrogen ICPs at 1 MHz including the nonlinear RF Lorentz force9
μs and ns twin surface dielectric barrier discharges operated in air: from electrode erosion to plasma characteristics9
Influence of aerosol injection on the liquid chemistry induced by an RF argon plasma jet9
Dual frequency DBD: influence of the amplitude and the frequency of applied voltages on glow, Townsend and radiofrequency DBDs9
Surface effects in a capacitive argon discharge in the intermediate pressure regime9
Space-charge induced particle reflection between hybrid AC/DC biased electrodes9
Revisiting the numerical stability/accuracy conditions of explicit PIC/MCC simulations of low-temperature gas discharges9
Diagnosing asymmetric bipolar HiPIMS discharges using laser Thomson scattering9
Surface ionization waves propagating over non-planar substrates: wavy surfaces, cut-pores and droplets9
Time evolution of neutral and charged species in Ar/C2H2 capacitively-coupled RF discharges9
Simulations of positive streamers in air in different electric fields: steady motion of solitary streamer heads and the stability field9
N–H collision integrals with study of repulsive interactions9
Molecular dynamics simulation of amine groups formation during plasma processing of polystyrene surfaces9
Decoupling ion energy and flux in intermediate pressure capacitively coupled plasmas via tailored voltage waveforms9
Electric field reversals resulting from voltage waveform tailoring in Ar/O2 capacitively coupled plasmas sustained in asymmetric systems9
Emission spectroscopic diagnostics of weakly ionized argon-diluted plasmas: glow discharge and inductively coupled plasma9
Quantitative measurements of oxygen atom and negative ion densities in a low pressure oxygen plasma by cavity ringdown spectroscopy9
Circuit model for flat cut-off probes with coplanar capacitance8
Structure of DC magnetron sputtering discharge at various gas pressures: a two-dimensional particle-in-cell Monte Carlo collision study8
Erosion and cathodic arc plasma of Nb–Al cathodes: composite versus intermetallic8
Method for estimating charge breeder ECR ion source plasma parameters with short pulse 1+ injection of metal ions8
Simulation study on an atmospheric pressure plasma jet interacting with a single fiber: effects of the fiber’s permittivity8
Tunable annular plasma photonic crystals in dielectric barrier discharge8
Experimental study on controlled production of two-electron temperature plasma8
Discharge dynamics, plasma kinetics and gas flow effect in argon–acetylene discharges8
Quenching of O2(b1Σg + ) by O(3P) atoms. Effect of gas temperature8
Radio-frequency biasing of ion acceleration grids with different propellants8
Magnetic field design for miniature pulse Penning ion source8
Nonlinear harmonic excitations in collisional, asymmetrically-driven capacitive discharges8
Hydrogen peroxide in lactate solutions irradiated by non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure plasma8
The fully-kinetic investigations on the ion acceleration mechanisms in an electron-driven magnetic nozzle8
Optimizing the ion diffusion in bipolar-pulse HiPIMS discharge (BP-HiPIMS) via an auxiliary anode8
Atmospheric pressure dual RF–LF frequency discharge: transition from α to α – γ -mode8
Measurements of atoms and metastable species in N2 and H2–N2 nanosecond pulse plasmas8
Magnetic attenuation of the self-excitation of the plasma series resonance in low-pressure capacitively coupled discharges8
Research on plasma electron density distribution based on microwave diffraction8
Vibrational quenching by water in a CO2 glow discharge measured using quantum cascade laser absorption spectroscopy8
Resonant microwaves probing acoustic waves from an RF plasma jet8
Anode spots of low current gliding arc plasmatron8
In situ measurement of electron emission yield at silicon dioxide surfaces exposed to argon plasmas8
Velocity distribution of metal ions in the target region of HiPIMS: the role of Coulomb collisions8
Transition from ballistic to thermalized transport of metal-sputtered species in a DC magnetron8
Foundations and interpretations of the pulsed-Townsend experiment8
Formation of inverse EDF in glow discharges with an inhomogeneous electric field8
A self-consistent hybrid model of kinetic striations in low-current argon discharges8
Disentangling dark and luminous phases of nanosecond discharges developing in liquid water8
High current ion beam formation with strongly inhomogeneous electrostatic field8
Similarity properties in capacitive radio frequency plasmas with nonlinear collision processes8
Effect of anisotropic scattering for rotational collisions on electron transport parameters in CO7
Effect of an inhomogeneous electron density profile on the transmission microwave frequency spectrum of the cutoff probe7
Propagation of humidified air plasma in a sandwich-type honeycomb plasma reactor and its dependence on the ambient temperature and reactor diameter7
Continuous gas temperature measurement of cold plasma jets containing microdroplets, using a focussed spot IR sensor7
Influence of voltage and gap distance on the dynamics of the ionization front, plasma dots, produced by nanosecond pulsed discharges at water surface7
Resolving discharge parameters from atomic oxygen emission7
Estimation of plasma parameters in a pre-breakdown ionization wave at the glow discharge ignition in argon7
Mode transition in 1D He plasma jet arrays dominated by hydrodynamic interaction7
Plasma plume expansion with pulsed electron neutralization7
Three-dimensional tomographically reconstructed optical emission profiles of Hall thruster plasmas7
Complex plasma in a stratified glow discharge in a strong magnetic field7
Determination of organic impurities by plasma electron spectroscopy in nonlocal plasma at intermediate and high pressures7
Fast quenching of metastable O2(a 1Δ g ) and O2(b 1Σ g 7
Characterization of electric discharge collocated with gas jet in supersonic airflow7
Nanosecond pulsed discharge dynamics during passage of a transient laminar flame7
The influence of humidity on positive streamer propagation in long air gap7
Evolutions of repetitively pulsed positive streamer discharge in electronegative gas mixtures at high pressure7
Simultaneous quantification of atomic oxygen and ozone by full photo-fragmentation two-photon absorption laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy7
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