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 …
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 …
Achieving large-scale kinetic modeling is a crucial task for the development and optimization of modern plasma devices. With the trend of decreasing pressure in applications, such as …
S Sharma, S Patil, S Sengupta, A Sen, A Khrabrov… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, Patil et al.[Phys. Rev. Res. 4, 013059 (2022)] have reported the existence of an enhanced operating regime when a low-pressure (5 mTorr) capacitively coupled discharge …
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 …
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 …
S Simha, S Sharma, A Khrabrov, I Kaganovich… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of driving frequency in the range of 13.56–73 MHz on electron energy distribution and electron heating modes in a 50 mTorr capacitively coupled argon plasma discharge is …
The effects of the discharge voltage on the formation and nature of electric field transients in a symmetric, collisionless, very high frequency, capacitively coupled plasma are studied …
A particle-in-cell simulation study is performed to investigate the discharge asymmetry, higher harmonic generations and electron heating mechanism in a low pressure …