Publications related to Debye sheath

Sheath collapse at critical shallow angle due to kinetic effects

The Debye sheath is known to vanish completely in magnetised plasmas for a sufficiently small electron gyroradius and small angle between the magnetic field and the wall. This angle depends on the current onto the wall. When the Debye sheath vanishes, ther ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Vlasov simulation of the emissive plasma sheath with energy-dependent secondary emission coefficient and improved modeling for dielectric charging effects

Guang-Yu Sun

A one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson simulation code is employed to investigate the plasma sheath considering electron-induced secondary electron emission (SEE) and backscattering. The SEE coefficient is commonly treated as constant in a range of plasma simula ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Unveiling the role of dielectric trap states on capacitively coupled radio-frequency plasma discharge: dynamic charging behaviors

Guang-Yu Sun, Arnas Volcokas

The influence of charge trap states in the dielectric boundary material on capacitively coupled radio-frequency (RF) plasma discharge is investigated with theory and particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo collision simulation. It is found that the trap states of the ...

2021

Neural-network accelerated coupled core-pedestal simulations with self-consistent transport of impurities and compatible with ITER IMAS

Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole

An integrated modeling workflow capable of finding the steady-state plasma solution with self-consistent core transport, pedestal structure, current profile, and plasma equilibrium physics has been developed and tested against a DIII-D discharge. Key featu ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Temperature dependence of water-water and ion-water correlations in bulk water and electrolyte solutions probed by femtosecond elastic second harmonic scattering

Sylvie Roke, Nathan Dupertuis, Yixing Chen, Halil Ibrahim Okur

The temperature dependence of the femtosecond elastic second harmonic scattering (fs-ESHS) response of bulk light and heavy water and their electrolyte solutions is presented. We observe clear temperature dependent changes in the hydrogen (H)-bond network ...

2018

Influence of the thickness of a nanometric copper interlayer on Au/dielectric thermal boundary conductance

Ludger Weber, Maïté Blank

The influence of the thickness of a thin (1.5-30 nm) copper layer on the thermal boundary conductance (TBC) at the interface between gold and silicon, sapphire and diamond, respectively, was studied using Time Domain Thermoreflectance. Overall, a monotonic ...

2018

Complex heavy-quark potential and Debye mass in a gluonic medium from lattice QCD

Yannis Burnier

We improve and extend our study of the complex in-medium heavy-quark potential and its Debye mass m(D) in a gluonic medium with a finer scan around the deconfinement transition and newly generated ensembles closer to the thermodynamic limit. On the lattice ...

American Physical Society2017

The Molecular Mechanism of Nanodroplet Stability

Sylvie Roke, Evangelia Zdrali, Yixing Chen, Halil Ibrahim Okur, David Mark Wilkins

Mixtures of nano- and microscopic oil droplets in water have recently been rediscovered as miniature reaction vessels in microfluidic environments and are important constituents of many environmental systems, food, personal care, and medical products. The ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Scrape-off-layer current loops and floating potential in limited tokamak plasmas

Paolo Ricci, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paola Paruta, Federico David Halpern

We investigate the question of how plasma currents circulate and close in the scrape-off-layer (SOL) of convection-limited tokamak plasmas. A simplified two-fluid model describes how currents must evacuate charge at the sheaths due to cross-field currents ...

Cambridge University Press2017

Soft nanofluidics governing minority ion exclusion in charged hydrogels

Songmei Wu, Thomas Michael Braschler, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Sidi Ahmed Bencherif

We investigate ionic partition of negatively charged molecular probes into also negatively charged, covalently crosslinked alginate hydrogels. The aim is to delimit the domain of validity of the major nanoelectrostatic models, and in particular to assess t ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Design of Single-Molecule Magnets: Insufficiency of the Anisotropy Barrier as the Sole Criterion

Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Romain Sibille

Determination of the electronic energy spectrum of a trigonalsymtnetry mononuclear Yb3+ single-molecule magnet (SMM) by highresolution absorption and luniinescente spectroscopies reveals that the first excited electronic doublet is placed nearly 500 cm(-1) ...

American Chemical Society2015

The role of the sheath in magnetized plasma turbulence and flows

Joaquim Loizu Cisquella

Controlled nuclear fusion could provide our society with a clean, safe, and virtually inexhaustible source of electric power production. The tokamak has proven to be capable of producing large amounts of fusion reactions by confining magnetically the ...

EPFL2013

Existence of subsonic plasma sheaths

Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella

The location of the plasma sheath edge, where quasineutrality is broken, is rigorously derived by using a kinetic description of the plasma. It is shown that sheaths can exist with arbitrarily small ion velocity at the sheath edge, thus violating the Bohm ...

American Physical Society2011

Blob current structures in TORPEX plasmas: experimental measurements and numerical simulations

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Nicola Vianello, Davoud Iraji, Diane Virginie Marie Lançon

In the simple magnetized torus TORPEX, field-aligned blobs originate from ideal interchange waves and propagate radially outward due to del B and curvature induced drifts. Time-resolved two-dimensional measurements of the field-aligned current density J(pa ...

2011

Practical solutions for reliable triple probe measurements in magnetized plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Philippe Marmillod

The triple probe method to obtain local, time-resolved measurements of density, electron temperature and plasma potential is investigated in detail. The difficulties in obtaining reliable measurements with this technique are discussed and overcome. These i ...

2011

Discrepancy between modelled and measured radial electric fields in the scrape-off layer of divertor tokamaks: a challenge for 2D fluid codes?

Richard Pitts, Jan Horacek, Marco Wischmeier

Examination of radial electric field (E,.) profiles in the scrape-off layer (SOL) of ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) and JET revealed large discrepancies between 2D fluid edge modelling and experiment. Experimental profiles of plasma potential (V-p) in the outer (low ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2007

Interaction of polyelectrolytes with oppositely charged surfaces : impact of molecular and electrochemical parameters on the adsorption behavior

Vesela Malinova

Despite progress during the last decade, the behavior of charged macromolecules, polyelectrolytes, including their interactions is not yet completely understood. In particular, interactions with oppositely charged surfaces, which play a significant role in ...

EPFL2005