In this review we describe a transient type of gas discharge which is commonly called a
streamer discharge, as well as a few related phenomena in pulsed discharges. Streamers …

The kINPen® plasma jet was developed from laboratory prototype to commercially available
non-equilibrium cold plasma jet for various applications in materials research, surface …

Non-equilibrium plasmas have been intensively studied over the past century in the context
of material processing, environmental remediation, ozone generation, excimer lamps and …

Despite being one of the most familiar and widely recognized natural phenomena, lightning
remains relatively poorly understood. Even the most basic questions of how lightning is …

Plasma jets are sources of repetitive and stable ionization waves, meant for applications
where they interact with surfaces of different characteristics. As such, plasma jets provide an …

Guided ionization waves, or plasma streamers, are increasingly important for many
applications in spanning materials processing and biomedicine. The highly reproducible …

Positive and negative streamers are studied in ambient air at 1 bar; they emerge from a
needle electrode placed 40 mm above a planar electrode. The amplitudes of the applied …

Positive streamers are thought to propagate by photo-ionization; the parameters of photo-
ionization depend on the nitrogen: oxygen ratio. Therefore we study streamers in nitrogen …

It is by now well understood that large sprite discharges at the low air densities of the
mesosphere are physically similar to small streamer discharges in air at standard …

This paper reviews optical diagnostic methods and approaches applied to study the
fundamentals of streamer discharges, considering the peculiarities of streamers developing …