Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. The characteristics of atmospheric pressure Ar-plasma such as the spatial distributions of number densities, fluxes, and temperatures of electrons and heavy plasma particles, as well as the spatial di…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. Neutralization of beams with 2D and 3D geometries by the electrons emitted from an external source is studied using particle-in-cell simulations. Our work reveals that the high-energy electrons excite…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. Previous studies have shown that adding a section of critical density plasma on the front surface of solid target can effectively improve the laser energy absorption efficiency. Here, we have investig…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. In this paper, the mechanisms of the period-doubling bifurcation in pulsed Dielectric Barrier Discharges (DBDs) are numerically investigated at atmospheric pressure. Under the given discharge conditio…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. As a typical highly nonlinear medium, laboratory plasmas can exhibit abundant nonlinear phenomena. It is well known that the presence of negative differential conductivity can cause the system to exhi…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. Recently, much effort has been dedicated to the high-density carbon ablator coated fuel capsule in indirect drive inertial confinement fusion experiments due to its higher density compared to other ab…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. In this paper, we present experimental observation of the transition of a 2D dust crystal to a non-equilibrium solid–liquid phase coexistence state. The experiments have been carried out in an L-shape…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. In general, it is challenging to numerically solve all the roots of plasma wave dispersion relations. The velocity distributions of multi-component particles in an anisotropic high-energy plasma can b…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. A 2D-3V finite-element particle-in-cell model, which is applied to simulate the radial-azimuthal plane near the exit of Hall thrusters, has been presented to investigate the influence of axial oscilla…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. Plasma-based intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have been recently proposed to reconfigure the radiation environment between transmitting and receiving antennas. Plasma-based IRSs rely on elements…