Review of the gas breakdown physics and nanomaterial-based ionization gas sensors and their applications

JY Kim, I Kaganovich, HC Lee - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Ionization gas sensors are ubiquitous tools that can monitor desired gases or detect
abnormalities in real time to protect the environment of living organisms or to maintain clean …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Transitions between electron emission and gas breakdown mechanisms across length and pressure scales

AL Garner, G Meng, Y Fu, AM Loveless… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This Perspective outlines theoretical, simulation, and experimental studies linking electron
emission and gas breakdown. Many studies have investigated field emission-driven …

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 …

Electrical breakdown in dual-frequency capacitively coupled plasma: a collective simulation

H Wu, Y Zhou, J Gao, Y Peng, Z Wang… - … Sources Science and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Most plasma sources have to undergo a breakdown process, during which, energy is
injected, and particles are ionized. However, we still know little about this fast evolution …

On the importance of excited state species in low pressure capacitively coupled plasma argon discharges

DQ Wen, J Krek, JT Gudmundsson… - Plasma Sources …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past three decades, first principles-based fully kinetic particle-in-cell Monte Carlo
collision (PIC/MCC) simulations have been proven to be an important tool for the …

Multi-diagnostic experimental validation of 1d3v PIC/MCC simulations of low pressure capacitive RF plasmas operated in argon

DA Schulenberg, I Korolov, Z Donkó… - Plasma Sources …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo collisions (PIC/MCC) simulation approach has become a
standard and well-established tool in studies of capacitively coupled radio frequency (RF) …

Plasma asymmetry and electron and ion energy distribution function in capacitive discharges excited by tailored waveforms

S Sharma, N Sirse, A Kuley… - Journal of Physics D …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Using a particle-in-cell simulation technique, we investigate the plasma and ionization
asymmetry, higher harmonics generation, and electron and ion energy distribution function …

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 …