Similarity theory and scaling laws determine how physical laws remain the same when
control parameters are changed, which is essential for the correlation, prediction, and …

This Perspective outlines theoretical, simulation, and experimental studies linking electron
emission and gas breakdown. Many studies have investigated field emission-driven …

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 …

In the past three decades, first principles-based fully kinetic particle-in-cell Monte Carlo
collision (PIC/MCC) simulations have been proven to be an important tool for the …

We demonstrate a self-consistent and complete description of electron dynamics in a typical
electropositive radio frequency magnetron sputtering (RFMS) argon discharge with a …

Resonance mechanisms have been found to be essential for the generation of high-density
rf plasmas at low pressures, in which electrons can be continuously accelerated through …

The effects of the simultaneous presence of two different types of plasma asymmetry, viz,
geometric and electrical, on low-pressure capacitively coupled argon discharges are studied …

We verify the similarity law (SL) and show a violation of frequency scaling (f-scaling) in low-
pressure capacitive radio frequency (rf) plasmas via fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations …

We generalize similarity theory based on the scaling and solution invariance of the
Boltzmann equation, coupled with the Poisson equation, and demonstrate similarity laws for …

The importance of gas discharges for numerous applications with increasingly small device
size motivates a more fundamental understanding of breakdown mechanisms. Gas …