Non-equilibrium in low-temperature plasmas

F Taccogna, G Dilecce - The European Physical Journal D, 2016 - Springer
The wide range of applications of cold plasmas originates from their special characteristic of
being a physical system out of thermodynamic equilibrium. This property enhances its …

Experimental and theoretical investigation of the control and balance of active sites on oxygen plasma-functionalized MoSe2 nanosheets for efficient hydrogen …

D Xiao, DL Bao, X Liang, Y Wang, J Shen… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plasma functionalization is an effective method to improve the electrocatalytic activity of
catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), but the relationship between the plasma …

eduPIC: an introductory particle based code for radio-frequency plasma simulation

Z Donkó, A Derzsi, M Vass, B Horváth… - Plasma Sources …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Particle based simulations are indispensable tools for numerical studies of charged particle
swarms and low-temperature plasma sources. The main advantage of such approaches is …

Electron bounce-cyclotron resonance in capacitive discharges at low magnetic fields

S Patil, S Sharma, S Sengupta, A Sen… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We report the existence of an enhanced operating regime for a high-frequency, low-
pressure capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) discharge in the presence of a weak magnetic …

Modeling of plasma processing reactors: review and perspective

S Rauf, K Bera, J Kenney… - Journal of Micro …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Low temperature plasmas (LTPs) are widely used in the semiconductor industry to etch,
deposit, modify, and pattern thin films during the fabrication of integrated circuits. Modeling …

Electron power absorption dynamics in magnetized capacitively coupled radio frequency oxygen discharges

L Wang, DQ Wen, P Hartmann, Z Donko… - Plasma Sources …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The influence of a uniform magnetic field parallel to the electrodes on radio frequency
capacitively coupled oxygen discharges driven at 13.56 MHz at a pressure of 100 mTorr is …

Spatial flux and energy asymmetry in a low pressure capacitively coupled plasma discharge excited by sawtooth waveform: A harmonic study

S Sharma, N Sirse, MM Turner - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Plasma asymmetry generation in capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) discharges provides
control over vital parameters that are useful in many plasma processing applications. In this …

2D particle-in-cell simulations of geometrically asymmetric low-pressure capacitive RF plasmas driven by tailored voltage waveforms

L Wang, P Hartmann, Z Donko, YH Song… - … Sources Science and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The effects of the simultaneous presence of two different types of plasma asymmetry, viz,
geometric and electrical, on low-pressure capacitively coupled argon discharges are studied …

On electron heating in a low pressure capacitively coupled oxygen discharge

JT Gudmundsson, DI Snorrason - Journal of Applied Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We use the one-dimensional object-oriented particle-in-cell Monte Carlo collision code
oopd1 to explore the charged particle densities, the electronegativity, the electron energy …

Ion energy and angular distributions in low-pressure capacitive oxygen RF discharges driven by tailored voltage waveforms

Z Donkó, A Derzsi, M Vass, J Schulze… - Plasma Sources …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the energy and angular distributions of ions reaching the electrodes in low-
pressure, capacitively coupled oxygen radio-frequency discharges. These distributions, as …