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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

  • Modeling plasmas for CO2 conversion: from fundamental data to applications
    Luca Vialetto
    #s1692, Tuesday, 19 Dec 2023, 10:00am
  • EM PIC modeling of CCP discharges
    Denis Eremin
    #s1691, Tuesday, 05 Dec 2023, 10:00am
  • Molecule interactions with surfaces
    Maria Rutigliano
    #s1690, Tuesday, 21 Nov 2023, 10:00am
  • Manipulating plasma chemistry using repetitive nanosecond pulsed power for plasma medicine and ignition for combustion
    Chunqi Jiang
    #s1689, Tuesday, 31 Oct 2023, 11:00am
  • Measuring the last few electrons on dust particles in plasma: from diagnostics development to application in semiconductor industry
    Job Beckers
    #s1688, Tuesday, 24 Oct 2023, 10:00am
  • Electron emission and backscattering from surfaces
    Franz Xaver Bronold
    #s1685, Tuesday, 03 Oct 2023, 10:00am

Past

  • Perspective of kinetic modeling for semiconducter industry Video
    Shahid Rauf, slides
    [#s1683, 05 Sep 2023]
  • Laser diagnostics in plasmas video
    Zhili Zhang
    [#s1682, 22 Aug 2023]
  • Development of CubeSat de-orbit ALl-printed Propulsion System (Cube-de-ALPS) , Video
    Minkwan Kim
    [#s1681, 25 Jul 2023]
  • Plasma nanotechnology in clean energy and environmental applications video
    Voelker Brueser
    [#s1631, 18 Jul 2023]
  • The Physics of Field-reversed Configuration (FRC) Fusion Reactors video
    Samuel Cohen, slides
    [#s1630, 27 Jun 2023]
  • The Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z Pinch for Fusion and Space Propulsion video
    Uri Shumlak
    [#s1626, 13 Jun 2023]
  • Plasma in liquids for the synthesis of nanomaterials video
    Thierry Belmonte
    [#s1625, 30 May 2023]
  • Multi-temperature models for CO2 vibrational kinetics video
    Elena Kustova
    [#s1624, 16 May 2023]
  • Plasma pyrolysis of natural gas video
    Alexander Khrabry
    [#s1606, 02 May 2023]
  • Network analysis and graph based approaches for plasma chemistry video
    Tomoyuki Murakami
    [#s1605, 18 Apr 2023]
  • Plasma expansion in magnetic nozzles video
    Justin Little
    [#s1604, 04 Apr 2023]
  • Plasma and (electro)catalysis for nitrogen fixation video
    Dr. 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, slides
    [#s1602, 07 Mar 2023]
  • Advanced optical diagnostics of cold atmospheric plasmas in rare gas jets video
    João Santos Sousa, slides
    [#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, slides
    [#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

    JOINT SEMINAR WITH GEC-IOPS

    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

    JOINT SEMINAR WITH GEC-IOPS

    Margarita Baeva, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology, Germany
    [#s1489, 18 Aug 2022]
  • Dependency of wave-frequency and mode-number on gas pressure in partially magnetized ExB sources with 2D-PIC simulations and experiments , Video
    Cheongbin Cheon, Pusan National University
    [#s1647, 16 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

    JOINT SEMINAR WITH IOPS

    Dmytro Rafalsky
    [#s1456, 31 Mar 2022]
  • Characterization of a radio-frequency inductively coupled electrothermal plasma thruster

    JOINT SEMINAR WITH IOPS

    Trevor Lafleur
    [#s1455, 31 Mar 2022]
  • Tutorial on optical diagnostics of methane plasma
    Tim Chen, slides
    [#s1405, 22 Mar 2022]
  • Plasma oncology

    JOINT SEMINAR WITH IOPS

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

    JOINT SEMINAR WITH IOPS

    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

    JOINT SEMINAR WITH IOPS

    Valery Godyak, slides
    [#s1400, 11 Jan 2022]