Tailored-waveform excitation of capacitively coupled plasmas and the electrical asymmetry effect

T Lafleur - Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Unequal areas of the powered and grounded electrodes in single-frequency capacitively
coupled plasmas (CCPs) are well-known to generate a DC self-bias voltage and an …

eduPIC: an introductory particle based code for radio-frequency plasma simulation

Z Donkó, A Derzsi, M Vass, B Horváth… - Plasma Sources …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Particle based simulations are indispensable tools for numerical studies of charged particle
swarms and low-temperature plasma sources. The main advantage of such approaches is …

Strong ionization asymmetry in a geometrically symmetric radio frequency capacitively coupled plasma induced by sawtooth voltage waveforms

B Bruneau, T Gans, D O'Connell, A Greb, EV Johnson… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
The ionization dynamics in geometrically symmetric parallel plate capacitively coupled
plasmas driven by radio frequency tailored voltage waveforms is investigated using phase …

Electron bounce-cyclotron resonance in capacitive discharges at low magnetic fields

S Patil, S Sharma, S Sengupta, A Sen… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We report the existence of an enhanced operating regime for a high-frequency, low-
pressure capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) discharge in the presence of a weak magnetic …

Direct implicit and explicit energy-conserving particle-in-cell methods for modeling of capacitively coupled plasma devices

H Sun, S Banerjee, S Sharma, AT Powis… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Achieving large-scale kinetic modeling is a crucial task for the development and optimization
of modern plasma devices. With the trend of decreasing pressure in applications, such as …

Plasma asymmetry and electron and ion energy distribution function in capacitive discharges excited by tailored waveforms

S Sharma, N Sirse, A Kuley… - Journal of Physics D …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Using a particle-in-cell simulation technique, we investigate the plasma and ionization
asymmetry, higher harmonics generation, and electron and ion energy distribution function …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the effects of electron bounce-cyclotron resonance on plasma dynamics in capacitive discharges operated in the presence of a weak transverse …

S Sharma, S Patil, S Sengupta, A Sen, A Khrabrov… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, Patil et al.[Phys. Rev. Res. 4, 013059 (2022)] have reported the existence of an
enhanced operating regime when a low-pressure (5 mTorr) capacitively coupled discharge …

Spatial flux and energy asymmetry in a low pressure capacitively coupled plasma discharge excited by sawtooth waveform: A harmonic study

S Sharma, N Sirse, MM Turner - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Plasma asymmetry generation in capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) discharges provides
control over vital parameters that are useful in many plasma processing applications. In this …

Electron power absorption dynamics in capacitive radio frequency discharges driven by tailored voltage waveforms in CF4

S Brandt, B Berger, E Schüngel, I Korolov… - Plasma Sources …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The power absorption dynamics of electrons and the electrical asymmetry effect in
capacitive radio-frequency plasmas operated in CF 4 and driven by tailored voltage …

Voltage waveform tailoring in radio frequency plasmas for surface charge neutralization inside etch trenches

F Krüger, S Wilczek, T Mussenbrock… - … Sources Science and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The etching of sub micrometer high-aspect-ratio (HAR) features into dielectric materials in
low pressure radio frequency technological plasmas is limited by the accumulation of …