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Accuracy of the Explicit Energy-Conserving Particle-in-Cell Method for Under-resolved Simulations of Capacitively Coupled Plasma Discharges

Andrew T. Powis, Igor D. Kaganovich

The traditional explicit electrostatic momentum-conserving Particle-in-cell algorithm requires strict resolution of the electron Debye length to deliver numerical accuracy. The exp…

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Particle-in-cell simulation of a 50~mTorr capacitively coupled argon discharge over a range of frequencies

Saurabh Simha, Sarveshwar Sharma, Alexander Khrabrov +3

The effect of driving frequency in the range of 13.56 MHz to 73 MHz on electron energy distribution and electron heating modes in a 50 mTorr capacitively coupled argon plasma disch…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 1 cited

Direct Implicit and Explicit Energy-Conserving Particle-in-Cell Methods for Modeling of Capacitively-Coupled Plasma Devices

Haomin Sun, Soham Banerjee, Sarveshwar Sharma +5

Achieving large-scale kinetic modelling is a crucial task for the development and optimization of modern plasma devices. With the trend of decreasing pressure in applications such…

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Rotating spokes, potential hump and modulated ionization in radio frequency magnetron discharges

Liang Xu, Haoming Sun, Denis Eremin +4

In this work, the rotating spoke mode in the radio frequency (RF) magnetron discharge, which features the potential hump and the RF-modulated ionization, is observed and analyzed b…

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Generation of energetic electrons by surface waves in VHF CCPs

D. Eremin, E. Kemaneci, M. Matsukuma +3

Capacitively coupled plasmas (CCP) comprise one of the main tool in active use in the plasma processing industry. However, increasing the driving frequency and electrode size is li…