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Inductively Coupled Plasma Driven by Asymmetric Triangular Current Waveform
Shahid Rauf, Tianhong Wang, Jason Kenney +2
Two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) are used to investigate the influence of radio-frequency (RF) current waveform and frequency on…
Benchmark for two-dimensional large scale coherent structures in partially magnetized ExB plasmas -- Community collaboration & lessons learned
Andrew T. Powis, Eduardo Ahedo, Alejandro Álvarez Laguna +38
Low-temperature plasmas are essential to both fundamental scientific research and critical industrial applications. As in many areas of science, numerical simulations have become a…
Particle-In-Cell Informed Kinetic Modeling of Nonlinear Skin Effects in Low-Frequency Inductively Coupled Plasmas
Haomin Sun, Jian Chen, Alexander Khrabrov +4
We perform extensive 2D Particle-In-Cell (PIC) electromagnetic simulations of low pressure Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) discharges with various coil current and driving frequen…
Nonlinear skin effect regime when a radio frequency electromagnetic field penetrates into a background plasma
Haomin Sun, Jian Chen, Alexander Khrabrov +4
Two-dimensional, electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations are employed to study particle kinetics and power deposition in the skin layer when a Radio Frequency (RF) electromagn…
Improved algorithm for a two-dimensional Darwin particle-in-cell code
Dmytro Sydorenko, Igor D. Kaganovich, Alexander V. Khrabrov +3
A two-dimensional particle-in-cell code for simulation of low-frequency electromagnetic processes in laboratory plasmas has been developed. The code uses the Darwin method omitting…
Investigating Instabilities in Magnetized Low-pressure Capacitively-Coupled RF Plasma using Particle-in-Cell (PIC) Simulations
Sathya Ganta, Kallol Bera, Shahid Rauf +5
The effect of a uniform magnetic field on particle transport in low-pressure radio frequency (RF) capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) has been studied using a particle-in-cell (PIC)…
Numerical thermalization in 2D PIC simulations: Practical estimates for low temperature plasma simulations
Sierra Jubin, Andrew Tasman Powis, Willca Villafana +5
The process of numerical thermalization in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations has been studied extensively. It is analogous to Coulomb collisions in real plasmas, causing particle…
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…
Particle-in-cell modeling of electron beam generated plasma
Shahid Rauf, D. Sydorenko, S. Jubin +4
Plasmas generated using energetic electron beams are well known for their low electron temperature () and plasma potential, which makes them attractive for atomic-precision…
Electron Modulational Instability in the Strong Turbulent Regime for an Electron Beam Propagating in Background Plasma
Haomin Sun, Jian Chen, Igor D. Kaganovich +2
We study collective processes for an electron beam propagating through a background plasma using simulations and analytical theory. A new regime where the instability of a Langmuir…
Physical Regimes of Electrostatic Wave-Wave nonlinear interactions generated by an Electron Beam Propagating in a Background Plasma
Haomin Sun, Jian Chen, Igor D. Kaganovich +2
Electron-beam plasma interaction has long been a topic of great interest. Despite the success of Quasi-Linear (QL) theory and Weak Turbulence (WT) theory, their validities are limi…
Evolution of the electron cyclotron drift instability in two-dimensions
Salomon Janhunen, Andrei Smolyakov, Dmytro Sydorenko +3
The Electron Cyclotron Drift Instability (ECDI) driven by the electron drift in partially magnetized plasmas is investigated with highly resolved particle-in-cell simul…
Excitation of a global plasma mode by an intense electron beam in a dc discharge
D. Sydorenko, I. D. Kaganovich, P. L. G. Ventzek +1
Interaction of an intense electron beam with a finite-length, inhomogeneous plasma is investigated numerically. The plasma density profile is maximal in the middle and decays towar…
Nonlinear structures and anomalous transport in partially magnetized plasmas
Salomon Janhunen, Andrei Smolyakov, Oleksandr Chapurin +3
Nonlinear dynamics of the electron-cyclotron instability driven by the electron current in crossed electric and magnetic field is studied. In nonlinear regime…
Effect of collisions on the two-stream instability in a finite length plasm
Dmytro Sydorenko, Igor D. Kaganovich, Peter L. G. Vetzek
The instability of a monoenergetic electron beam in a collisional one-dimensional plasma bounded between grounded walls is considered both analytically and numerically. Collisions…
Generation of anomalously energetic suprathermal electrons by an electron beam interacting with a nonuniform plasma
D. Sydorenko, I. D. Kaganovich, L. Chen +1
Generation of anomalously energetic suprathermal electrons was observed in simulation of a high- voltage dc discharge with electron emission from the cathode. An electron beam prod…
Band Structure of the Growth Rate of the Two-Stream Instability of an Electron Beam Propagating in a Bounded Plasma
I. D. Kaganovich, D. Sydorenko
This paper presents a study of the two-stream instability of an electron beam propagating in a finite-size plasma placed between two electrodes. It is shown that the growth rate in…