Electron dynamics in low pressure capacitively coupled radio frequency discharges

S Wilczek, J Schulze, RP Brinkmann, Z Donkó… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In low temperature plasmas, the interaction of the electrons with the electric field is an
important current research topic that is relevant for many applications. Particularly, in the low …

Multiscale modeling of plasma–surface interaction—General picture and a case study of Si and SiO2 etching by fluorocarbon-based plasmas

P Vanraes, S Parayil Venugopalan… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The physics and chemistry of plasma–surface interaction is a broad domain relevant to
various applications and several natural processes, including plasma etching for …

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 …

The role of electron induced secondary electron emission from SiO2 surfaces in capacitively coupled radio frequency plasmas operated at low pressures

B Horváth, M Daksha, I Korolov, A Derzsi… - … Sources Science and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The effects of electron induced secondary electron (SE) emission from SiO 2 electrodes in
single-frequency capacitively coupled plasmas (CCPs) are studied by particle-in-cell/Monte …

The effect of electron induced secondary electrons on the characteristics of low-pressure capacitively coupled radio frequency plasmas

B Horváth, J Schulze, Z Donkó… - Journal of Physics D …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the effects of secondary electrons (SEs), induced by electrons impinging on
the electrodes, on the characteristics of low-pressure single-frequency capacitively coupled …

Electron dynamics in radio frequency magnetron sputtering argon discharges with a dielectric target

B Zheng, Y Fu, K Wang, T Schuelke… - … Sources Science and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate a self-consistent and complete description of electron dynamics in a typical
electropositive radio frequency magnetron sputtering (RFMS) argon discharge with a …

High-energy ballistic electrons in low-pressure radio-frequency plasmas

Y Fu, B Zheng, DQ Wen, P Zhang… - Plasma Sources …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This work demonstrates the presence of a small number of high-energy ballistic electrons
(HEBEs) that originate from secondary electrons in low-pressure radio-frequency (rf) …

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 …

Charged particle dynamics and distribution functions in low pressure dual-frequency capacitively coupled plasmas operated at low frequencies and high voltages

P Hartmann, L Wang, K Nösges, B Berger… - Plasma Sources …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In high aspect ratio (HAR) dielectric plasma etching, dual-frequency capacitively coupled
radio-frequency plasmas operated at low pressures of 1 Pa or less are used. Such plasma …

Similarity law and frequency scaling in low-pressure capacitive radio frequency plasmas

Y Fu, B Zheng, DQ Wen, P Zhang, QH Fan… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We verify the similarity law (SL) and show a violation of frequency scaling (f-scaling) in low-
pressure capacitive radio frequency (rf) plasmas via fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations …