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 …

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 …

Electron bounce-cyclotron resonance in capacitive discharges at low magnetic fields

S Patil, S Sharma, S Sengupta, A Sen… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
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 …

Direct implicit and explicit energy-conserving particle-in-cell methods for modeling of capacitively coupled plasma devices

H Sun, S Banerjee, S Sharma, AT Powis… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the effects of electron bounce-cyclotron resonance on plasma dynamics in capacitive discharges operated in the presence of a weak transverse …

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 …

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 …

Kinetic simulation of a 50 mTorr capacitively coupled argon discharge over a range of frequencies and comparison to experiments

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 …

Electric field filamentation and higher harmonic generation in very high frequency capacitive discharges

S Sharma, N Sirse, A Sen, JS Wu… - Journal of Physics D …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

High frequency sheath modulation and higher harmonic generation in a low pressure very high frequency capacitively coupled plasma excited by sawtooth waveform

S Sharma, N Sirse, MM Turner - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A particle-in-cell simulation study is performed to investigate the discharge asymmetry,
higher harmonic generations and electron heating mechanism in a low pressure …