OLTP Seminar Series

Online Low Temperature Plasma (OLTP) Seminar Series

Because of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, most scientific conferences, workshops, and symposia have been cancelled or postponed. The unfortunate consequence of this is that the low temperature plasma (LTP) community, like many other research communities, is now isolated without the opportunity to meet, network, and learn what’s new in our field. To remedy this situation, a bi-weekly online seminar has been organized. This seminar series, founded by Prof. Mounir Laroussi of Old Dominion University, is meant to fill the gap left open by the lack of scientific meetings and conferences. The seminar organizing committee has selected several outstanding speakers to participate by giving a 25-30 minutes lecture followed by 10-15 minutes discussion. The seminar, held on Tuesdays at 9:00 AM EST via Zoom, is free to access from anywhere in the world.

For more information, and to request the Zoom link and password, please contact Dr. Vasco Guerra (vguerra@tecnico.ulisboa.pt) and Dr.Mikhail Shneider(shneyder@princeton.edu).

The OLTP seminar is sponsored by AIP Publishing and their Plasma Portfolio of Journals: Journal of Applied Physics, Physics of Plasmas, AIP Advances, and Matter and Radiation at Extremes.

OLTP Seminar Committee Members

Past Seminars

OLTP By Laws

Upcoming

Plasma nanotechnology in clean energy and environmental applications

Voelker Brueser

#s1631, Tuesday, 18 Jul 2023, 10:00am
Innovative concepts in magnetically confined fusion

Samuel Cohen

#s1630, Tuesday, 27 Jun 2023, 10:00am
The Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z Pinch for Fusion and Space Propulsion

Uri Shumlak

#s1626, Tuesday, 13 Jun 2023, 10:00am
Plasma in liquids for the synthesis of nanomaterials

Thierry Belmonte

#s1625, Tuesday, 30 May 2023, 10:00am
Multi-temperature models for CO2 vibrational kinetics

Elena Kustova

#s1624, Tuesday, 16 May 2023, 10:00am
Plasma pyrolysis of natural gas

Alexander Khrabry

#s1606, Tuesday, 02 May 2023, 10:00am
Network analysis and graph based approaches for plasma chemistry

Tomoyuki Murakami

#s1605, Tuesday, 18 Apr 2023, 10:00am
Plasma expansion in magnetic nozzles

Justin Little

#s1604, Tuesday, 04 Apr 2023, 10:00am

Past

Plasma and (electro)catalysis for nitrogen fixation video

Mihalis Tsampas

[#s1603, 21 Mar 2023]
Study of various configurations of micro hollow cathode discharges in Ar/N2 used for boron nitride PECVD video

Claudia Lazzaroni

[#s1602, 07 Mar 2023]
Advanced optical diagnostics of cold atmospheric plasmas in rare gas jets video

João Santos Sousa

[#s1598, 21 Feb 2023]
Streamer discharge propagation in long air gaps , Video

Andrey Starikovskiy

[#s1597, 07 Feb 2023]
Fundamentals and applications of coherent microwave scattering , Video

Alexey Shashurin, abstract

[#s1596, 24 Jan 2023]

Measurements of plasma parameters in small-size plasmas are very challenging as many traditional diagnostic approaches cannot be used. The coherent microwave scattering (CMS) offers a convenient diagnostic solution for such small plasmas. It is based on measurement of the constructive coherent elastic scattering of microwaves off the plasma object. Scattered radiation can be detected and attributed after appropriate system calibration to the certain properties in the plasma object including absolute electron count, electron number density, and electron-gas collisional frequency. Fundamentals of the coherent microwave scattering with an emphasis on Thomson, collisional, and Rayleigh scattering in short, thin unmagnetized plasma media will be considered. Ideality of the CMS technique in the Thomson “free-electron” regime will be reviewed where a detailed knowledge of collisional properties (which are often difficult to accurately characterize) is unnecessary to extract electron number measurement from the scattered signal. Substantially higher sensitivity of the CMS in comparison with the incoherent counterpart in the optical frequency domain (laser Thomson scattering) will be discussed. Several experimental demonstrations of the CMS in collisional and Thomson scattering regimes will be discussed. Applications of the CMS for diagnostics of combustion, electric propulsion, nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges, photoionization in near- and mid-infrared, and small-size glow discharges enclosed within glass tubes will be considered. Dr. Shashurin is an Associate Professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. His research is focused on experimental plasma science and engineering with special emphasis on diagnostics and applications of plasmas to electric propulsion, combustion, hypersonics, and biomedical engineering. The research results have been reported in >90 peer-reviewed journal articles, >100 conference proceedings, and 9 patent applications. Dr. Shashurin is Associate Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Senior Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the recipient of the Welch International Award for 2008.
How to choose your nanosecond plasma: a bridge between kinetics and applications , Video

Svetlana Starikovskaya

[#s1595, 10 Jan 2023]
The Role of Plasmas in the Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Manufacturing
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Eray Aydill

[#s1497, 13 Dec 2022]
Modelling low-current quasi-stationary gas discharges: mathematical aspects and a practical guide , Video

Mikhail S. Benilov, slides

[#s1496, 29 Nov 2022]
Electromagnetic Interactions in Magnetized and Non-Magnetized Plasma Metamaterials and Photonics Crystals video

Mark Cappelli, slides

[#s1495, 15 Nov 2022]
Plasma-combustion topic video

Laxminarayan Raja, slides

[#s1494, 01 Nov 2022]
Reactive species in atmospheric pressure plasmas: measurement and control
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Timo Gans

[#s1535, 27 Oct 2022]
APS DPP Meeting

[#s1492, 18 Oct 2022]
GEC Conference

[#s1491, 04 Oct 2022]
Non-equilibrium plasmas for climate change mitigation video

Deanna Lacoste, slides

[#s1490, 20 Sep 2022]
Cathodic arc plasma science and applications: The known unknown and unknown known video

Andre Anders, slides

[#s1533, 06 Sep 2022]
Plasma medicine
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Annemie Bogaerts

[#s1534, 01 Sep 2022]
Inductive discharges: past, present and future video

Tsanko Tsankov, slides

[#s1488, 23 Aug 2022]
Theoretical description and modelling of low-current arcs at small gap distances video
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Margarita Baeva, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology, Germany

[#s1489, 18 Aug 2022]
Low-temperature plasma technology for inactivation of pathogenic microbial aerosol video

Dawei Liu, slides

[#s1487, 26 Jul 2022]
Physics of plasma jets and interaction with surfaces video

Pedro Viegas, slides

[#s1486, 12 Jul 2022]
Hysteresis physics of inductively coupled plasmas video

Hyo-Chang Lee, slides

[#s1440, 28 Jun 2022]
UV light technologies for disinfection and purification of water and air video

Leonid Vasyliak , slides

[#s1441, 14 Jun 2022]
Plasma focus: novel dense-hot plasma and radiation source for plasma nanotechnology and studying fusion relevant materials under extreme condition video

Rajdeep Singh Rawat , slides

[#s1442, 31 May 2022]
Fast Spectroscopy of nanosecond plasmas in liquids: the quest for signatures of direct, bubble-assisted and bubble-driven discharge mechanisms video

Milan Simek , slides

[#s1443, 17 May 2022]
Plasma processing of new materials video

Jane Chang , slides

[#s1444, 03 May 2022]
Helicon plasmas, magnetic nozzles video

Kazunori Takahashi, slides

[#s1445, 19 Apr 2022]
From arc welding to wire-arc additive manufacturing – extending the range of application of an arc plasma model video

Tony Murphy, slides

[#s1406, 05 Apr 2022]
In-orbit demonstration of an iodine electric propulsion system
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Dmytro Rafalsky

[#s1456, 31 Mar 2022]
Characterization of a radio-frequency inductively coupled electrothermal plasma thruster
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Trevor Lafleur

[#s1455, 31 Mar 2022]
Tutorial on optical diagnostics of methane plasma

Tim Chen, slides

[#s1405, 22 Mar 2022]
Plasma oncology
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Vandana Miller

[#s1454, 17 Mar 2022]
What LTP community needs to know about EXB discharges
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video

Jean-Pierre Boeuf, slides

[#s1404, 08 Mar 2022]
Towards Kinetic Whole Device Modeling of Low-Temperature Plasma Devices - Algorithms and Computer Science video

Tasman Powis, slides

[#s1403, 22 Feb 2022]
Understanding the mechanisms of non-thermal plasma treatments on seeds video

Alexandra Waskow, slides

[#s1402, 08 Feb 2022]
Nonlinear Transmission Line (NTL) Study of Electromagnetic Modes in Capacitive Discharges video

Emi Kawamura, slides

[#s1401, 25 Jan 2022]
Classical Langmuir probe diagnostics: Validity, problems and their resolution video
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Valery Godyak, slides

[#s1400, 11 Jan 2022]