Select Publications

Conference Presentations

Lafleur T, 2017, 'Plasma sources for space propulsion applications: new concepts and recent developments', presented at 21st Symposium on Application of Plasma Processes, Strbske Pleso, Slovakia, 13 January 2017

Croes V; Lafleur T; Bourdon A; Chabert P, 2016, 'Electrostatic PIC for space propulsion: LPPic2D', presented at Workshop on Hybrid and PIC Simulations, Paris, France, 09 November 2016

Schulze J; Berger B; Brandt S; Bruneau B; Liu Y; Korolov I; Derzsi A; Schungel E; Koepke M; Mussenbrock T; Johnson E; Lafleur T; Booth J-P; O'Connell D; Gans T; Wang Y; Donko Z, 2016, 'Charged particle dynamics in technological radio frequency plasmas operated in CF4', presented at 63rd American Vacuum Society Symposium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 06 November 2016

Adrian P; Baalrud S; Lafleur T, 2016, 'Ion-neutral collision effects on streaming instabilities in the pre-sheath of low temperature plasmas', presented at 58th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, San Jose, California, USA, 31 October 2016

Croes V; Lafleur T; Bonaventura Z; Pechereau F; Bourdon A; Chabert P, 2016, '2D Particle-in-cell simulations of the electron-cyclotron instability and associated anomalous transport in Hall-effect thrusters', presented at 69th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Bochum, Germany, 10 October 2016

Lafleur T; Rafalskyi D; Aanesland A, 2016, 'Electron density measurements in very electronegative plasmas using different diagnostic techniques: theory and experiments', presented at 69th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Bochum, Germany, 10 October 2016

Lafleur T; Cannat F; Jarrige J; Elias P-Q; Packan D, 2016, 'Ion acceleration in electrodeless plasma thrusters', presented at Bochum, Germany, Bochum, Germany, 10 October 2016

Lafleur T; Baalrud S; Chabert P, 2016, 'Theory for the anomalous electron transport in Hall-effect thrusters', presented at 69th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Bochum, Germany, 10 October 2016

Diomede P; Lafleur T; Booth J-P; Longo S; Economou D, 2016, 'Modelling of tailored ion energy distributions for plasma processing applications', presented at 23rd Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases, Bratislava, Slovakia, 12 July 2016

Diomede P; Bruneau B; Lafleur T; Economou D; Longo S; Gans T; O'Connell D; Greb A; Johnson E; Booth J-P, 2016, 'Modelling and experimental validation of capacitively coupled plasmas in hydrogen', presented at 43rd European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Leuven, Belgium, 04 July 2016

Schulze J; Breger B; Brandt S; Koepke M; Mussenbrock T; Bruneau B; Johnson E; Lafleur T; Booth J-P; O'Connell D; Gans T; Korolov I; Derzsi A; Donko Z, 2016, 'Heating dynamics and control of energy distribution functions in capacitive discharges driven by tailored voltage waveforms', presented at 18th International Congress on Plasma Physics, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 27 June 2016

Lafleur T, 2016, 'Electrostatic probe diagnostics for electric propulsion systems', presented at Von Karman Institute Lecture Series and Workshop STO-AVT-263, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium, 06 June 2016

Grondein P; Lafleur T; Chabert P; Bourdon A, 2016, 'Iodine as a propellant for ion thrusters', presented at Von Karman Institute Lecture Series and Workshop STO-AVT-263, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium, 06 June 2016

Croes V; Lafleur T; Bonaventura Z; Bourdon A; Pechereau F; Chabert P, 2016, 'Particle-in-cell simulations of the electron-cyclotron drift instability and associated anomalous electron transport in Hall-effect thrusters', presented at Von Karman Institute Lecture Series and Workshop STO-AVT-263, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium, 06 June 2016

Lafleur T; Baalrud S; Chabert P, 2016, 'Theory for the anomalous electron transport in Hall-effect thrusters', presented at Von Karman Institute Lecture Series and Workshop STO-AVT-263, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium, 06 June 2016

Grondein P; Lafleur T; Chabert P; Aanesland A, 2016, 'Iodine chemistry in global model and experiments', presented at 19th International Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, Paris, France, 04 April 2016

Bruneau B; Johnson E; Gans T; O'Connell D; Greb A; Korolov I; Derzsi A; Donko Z; Schungel E; Brandt S; Schulze J; Diomede P; Economou D; Longo S; Lafleur T; Booth J-P, 2015, 'Comparison of the effect of sawtooth-like voltage waveforms on discharge dynamics of Ar, H2, and CF4 plasmas', presented at 68th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 12 October 2015

Schulze J; Bruneau B; Johnson E; Booth J-P; Lafleur T; Korolov I; Derzsi A; Donko Z; Brandt S; Schungel E; Greb A; O'Connell D; Gans T, 2015, 'Control of electron heating dynamics and DC self bias in electronegative capacitive CF4 plasmas by voltage waveform tailoring', presented at 68th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 12 October 2015

Grondein P; Lafleur T; Chabert P; Aanesland A, 2015, 'Evaluation of iodine as an alternative propellant for gridded electric space propulsion systems', presented at 68th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 12 October 2015

Bruneau B; Johnson E; Booth J-P; Lafleur T; Gans T; O'Connell D; Greb A; Korolov I; Derzsi A; Donko Z; Schungel E; Schulze J, 2015, 'Capacitively coupled CF4 discharges excited by tailored waveforms: experiments and kinetic simulations', presented at 5th Workshop on Radio Frequency Discharges, Dublin, Ireland, 22 June 2015

Lafleur T; Chabert P, 2015, 'Is collisionless heating in CCPs really collisionless?', presented at 5th Workshop on Radio Frequency Discharges, Dublin, Ireland, 22 June 2015

Bruneau B; Gans T; O'Connell D; Greb A; Lafleur T; Johnson E; Booth J-P, 2015, 'Ion flux asymmetry obtained by sawtooth-like waveforms: A new degree of freedom in capacitively coupled plasmas', presented at Plasma Etch and Strip in Microelectronics, Louvain, Belgium

Bruneau B; Novikova T; Lafleur T; Booth J-P; Johnson E, 2014, 'Control over the ion flux obtained by sawtooth-like waveforms in radiofrequency capacitively coupled plasmas', presented at 61st American Vacuum Society Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 09 November 2014

Lafleur T; Rafalskyi D; Aanesland A, 2014, 'Experimental demonstration of the PEGASES plasma thruster concept', presented at 59th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics, Johannesburg, South Africa,, 07 July 2014

Chabert P; Lafleur T; Booth J-P; Turner M, 2014, 'A model for capacitive discharges with arbitrary RF waveform excitation including the electrical asymmetry effect and the associated self-bias', presented at 8th International Conference on Reactive Plasma, Fukuoka, Japan, 04 February 2014

Baalrud S; Lafleur T; Fox W; Germaschewski K, 2013, 'Two-stream instabilities and enhanced friction forces in the two ion species plasma presheath', presented at 55th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Denver, Colorado, USA, 11 November 2013

Johnson E; Bruneau B; Delattre P-A; Lafleur T; Booth J-P, 2013, 'Practical aspects of using tailored voltage waveforms for thin film processing of photovoltaic devices', presented at 60th American Vacuum Society Symposium, Long Beach, California, USA, 27 October 2013

Lafleur T, 2013, 'Electron heating in capacitively coupled plasmas revisited: single and multi-frequency discharges', presented at 66th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 30 September 2013

Baalrud S; Lafleur T, 2013, 'Identification of streaming instabilities in the presheath of plasmas with two ion species', presented at 66th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 30 September 2013

Johnson E; Bruneau B; Delattre P-A; Lafleur T; Booth J-P, 2013, 'In-situ observation of microcrystalline silicon thin film growth using tailored voltage waveforms', presented at 19th International Vacuum Conference, Paris, France, 09 September 2013

Booth J-P; Johnson E; Lafleur T; Delattre P-A; Boswell R, 2013, 'Tailoring plasma properties using pulse-shaping technology', presented at 21st International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Cairns, Australia, 04 August 2013

Lafleur T; Delattre P-A; Johnson E; Booth J-P, 2013, 'Capacitively coupled plasmas excited by tailored voltage waveforms', presented at 40th European Physical Society Conference, Espoo, Finland, 01 July 2013

Lafleur T; Chabert P; Booth J-P, 2013, 'Electron heating in capacitively coupled plasmas revisited', presented at 4th Workshop on Radio Frequency Discharges, Presqu’ile de Giens, France, 29 May 2013

Johnson E; Bruneau B; Delattre P-A; Lafleur T; Booth J-P, 2013, 'Thin film deposition with tailored voltage waveforms: Material questions and practical answers', presented at 4th Workshop on Radio Frequency Discharges, Presqu’île de Giens, France, 29 May 2013

Booth J-P; Johnson E; Lafleur T; Delattre P-A, 2013, 'Tailored voltage waveform capacitively-coupled plasmas for IEDF and electron density control: application to microcrystalline Si deposition', presented at Semicon Korea, Seoul, South Korea, 30 January 2013

Lafleur T; Booth J-P, 2012, 'Plasma characteristics in non-sinusoidally excited CCP discharges', presented at 65th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, 22 October 2012

Johnson E; Delattre P-A; Lafleur T; Booth J-P, 2012, 'Plasma excitation using tailored voltage waveforms for the deposition of thin film silicon for photovoltaics: From plasma physics to devices', presented at 5th International Symposium on Atomically Controlled Fabrication Technology, Osaka, Japan, 22 October 2012

Booth J-P; Lafleur T; Delattre P-A; Johnson E, 2012, 'Tailored voltage waveform capacitively-coupled plasmas', presented at 65th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, 22 October 2012

Lafleur T; Charles C; Boswell R, 2010, 'Control of helicon wave propagation in low magnetic field expanding plasmas', presented at 16th Gaseous Electronics Meeting, Murramarang Resort, Australia, 03 February 2010

Theses / Dissertations

Lafleur T, 2011, Helicon Wave Propagation in Low Diverging Magnetic Fields, http://dx.doi.org/10.25911/5d7a265f27127

Preprints

Baalrud SD; Lafleur T, 2021, dc electrical conductivity in strongly magnetized plasmas, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2105.03518

Bernstein DJ; Lafleur T; Daligault J; Baalrud SD, 2020, Friction Force in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2008.11126

Kaganovich ID; Smolyakov A; Raitses Y; Ahedo E; Mikellides IG; Jorns B; Taccogna F; Gueroult R; Tsikata S; Bourdon A; Boeuf J-P; Keidar M; Powis AT; Merino M; Cappelli M; Hara K; Carlsson JA; Fisch NJ; Chabert P; Schweigert I; Lafleur T; Matyash K; Khrabrov AV; Boswell RW; Fruchtman A, 2020, Perspectives on Physics of ExB Discharges Relevant to Plasma Propulsion and Similar Technologies, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2007.09194

Vass M; Wilczek S; Lafleur T; Brinkmann RP; Donkó Z; Schulze J, 2019, Electron power absorption in low pressure capacitively coupled electronegative oxygen radio frequency plasmas, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1911.02435

Lafleur T; Baalrud SD, 2019, Transverse Force Induced by a Magnetized Wake, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1909.03121

Croes V; Tavant A; Lucken R; Martorelli R; Lafleur T; Bourdon A; Chabert P, 2018, The effect of alternative propellants on the electron drift instability in Hall-effect thrusters: Insight from 2D Particle-In-Cell simulations, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1804.06145

Baalrud SD; Lafleur T; Fox W; Germaschewski K, 2014, Instability-Enhanced Friction in the Presheath of Two-Ion-Species Plasmas, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1410.2773

Baalrud SD; Lafleur T; Boswell RW; Charles C, 2013, Particle-in-cell simulations of a current-free double layer, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1301.3957

Turner MM; Derzsi A; Donko Z; Eremin D; Kelly SJ; Lafleur T; Mussenbrock T, 2012, Simulation benchmarks for low-pressure plasmas: capacitive discharges, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1211.5246

Other

Lafleur T; Aanesland A; Laurene R; Rafalskyi D, 2021, How iodine electric propulsion systems can enable the economic sustainability of satellite constellations, http://www.satmagazine.com/story.php?number=1467816246


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