Plasma, Volume 9, Issue 4

Commercially available solid ceramic end mills, which are remarkable for producing high-quality machined surfaces and achieving cutting speeds unattainable with tungsten carbide tools, are characterized by a wide range of mean times between failures,...

In the Kazakhstan Material Testing Tokamak (KTM), additional plasma heating will be achieved by injecting power in the ion cyclotron resonance frequency range using four identical generators, each delivering 2 MW of output power. Prior to transitioni...

For the first time, results are presented demonstrating the feasibility of carbon dioxide disposal while simultaneously producing syngas using a microwave discharge in liquid methanol, with CO₂ bubbling at atmospheric pressure. The CO₂ input flow rat...

Cold Atmospheric Plasma (CAP) is gaining interest as a biomedical technology due to its ability to modulate cellular behaviour through the controlled delivery of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS), UV photons, and electric fields. This is pa...

At present, one of the key challenges in the development of controlled thermonuclear fusion (CTF) facilities is to ensure stable auxiliary plasma heating to the parameters required to sustain long-duration, high-power discharges. To achieve such oper...

A nonlinear plasma-dynamic model has been proposed to describe the formation of nano-hillocks on the yttrium iron garnet surface due to the bombardment of energetic C₆₀ ions. Localized energy deposition is thought to generate a transient multicompone...

Atmospheric-pressure nonequilibrium argon plasmas are used in many applications, and their electron properties may depend on the device configuration. Here, the electron temperature and density of two devices of contrasting geometry, a closed flow-ch...

In this paper, we study electron to ion root confinement transitions triggered by Electron Cyclotron Resonant Heating switch-off when the line-averaged electron density is sufficiently high and while Neutral Beam Injection heating is on. We use a Hea...

In this work, the forces on millimeter-sized test spheres were measured to understand charging and field forces in a surface DBD. Spheres rolling on a tilted diffuse coplanar surface barrier discharge (Dcsbd) were observed to accelerate more slowly w...