Voltage waveform tailoring in radio frequency plasmas for surface charge neutralization inside etch trenches

F Krüger, S Wilczek, T Mussenbrock… - … Sources Science and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The etching of sub micrometer high-aspect-ratio (HAR) features into dielectric materials in
low pressure radio frequency technological plasmas is limited by the accumulation of …

Best impedance matching seeking of single-frequency capacitively coupled plasmas by numerical simulations

S Yu, Z Chen, H Wu, L Guo, Z Wang, W Jiang… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Impedance matching can maximize the absorbed power transferred to the plasma load and
minimize the reflected power, making it critical and indispensable for capacitively coupled …

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 …

Control of electron dynamics, radical and metastable species generation in atmospheric pressure RF plasma jets by Voltage Waveform Tailoring

I Korolov, Z Donko, G Hübner, L Bischoff… - Plasma Sources …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Atmospheric pressure capacitively coupled radio frequency discharges operated in He/N 2
mixtures and driven by tailored voltage waveforms are investigated experimentally using a …

[HTML][HTML] Power matching to pulsed inductively coupled plasmas

C Qu, SJ Lanham, SC Shannon, SK Nam… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Matching of power delivery to nonlinear loads in plasma processing is a continuing
challenge. Plasma reactors used in microelectronics fabrication are increasingly multi …

Modeling of very high frequency large-electrode capacitively coupled plasmas with a fully electromagnetic particle-in-cell code

D Eremin, E Kemaneci, M Matsukuma… - Plasma Sources …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Phenomena taking place in capacitively coupled plasmas with large electrodes and driven
at very high frequencies are studied numerically utilizing a novel energy-and charge …

The effects of match circuit on the breakdown process of capacitively coupled plasma driven by radio frequency

H Wu, Z Chen, S Yu, Q Wang, X Li, W Jiang… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The breakdown process of capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) in the presence of a
matching network is rarely studied, even though it is the indispensable part of the most …

Foundations of plasmas as ion sources

B Jorns, T Lafleur - Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
An overview of low temperature, partially magnetized ion sources is presented. This class of
devices is broadly characterized by plasma densities below 10 19 m− 3, electron …

Numerical impedance matching via extremum seeking control of single-frequency capacitively coupled plasmas

Z Chen, S Yu, J Xu, D Cao, Z Chen, W Jiang… - Physica …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Impedance matching is a critical component of semiconductor plasma processing for
minimizing the reflected power and maximizing the plasma absorption power. In this work, a …

Control of ion flux-energy distributions by low frequency square-shaped tailored voltage waveforms in capacitively coupled plasmas

P Hartmann, I Korolov, J Escandón-López… - Plasma Sources …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Capacitively coupled plasmas are routinely used in an increasing number of technological
applications, where a precise control of the quantity and the shape of the energy distribution …