Select Publications
Conference Presentations
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
,2016, 'Electrostatic PIC for space propulsion: LPPic2D', presented at Workshop on Hybrid and PIC Simulations, Paris, France, 09 November 2016
,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
,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
,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
,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
,2016, 'Ion acceleration in electrodeless plasma thrusters', presented at Bochum, Germany, Bochum, Germany, 10 October 2016
,2016, 'Theory for the anomalous electron transport in Hall-effect thrusters', presented at 69th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Bochum, Germany, 10 October 2016
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,2016, 'Iodine chemistry in global model and experiments', presented at 19th International Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, Paris, France, 04 April 2016
,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
,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
,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
,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
,2015, 'Is collisionless heating in CCPs really collisionless?', presented at 5th Workshop on Radio Frequency Discharges, Dublin, Ireland, 22 June 2015
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,2013, 'Tailoring plasma properties using pulse-shaping technology', presented at 21st International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Cairns, Australia, 04 August 2013
,2013, 'Capacitively coupled plasmas excited by tailored voltage waveforms', presented at 40th European Physical Society Conference, Espoo, Finland, 01 July 2013
,2013, 'Electron heating in capacitively coupled plasmas revisited', presented at 4th Workshop on Radio Frequency Discharges, Presqu’ile de Giens, France, 29 May 2013
,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
,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
,2012, 'Plasma characteristics in non-sinusoidally excited CCP discharges', presented at 65th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, 22 October 2012
,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
,2012, 'Tailored voltage waveform capacitively-coupled plasmas', presented at 65th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, 22 October 2012
,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
2011, Helicon Wave Propagation in Low Diverging Magnetic Fields, http://dx.doi.org/10.25911/5d7a265f27127
,Preprints
2021, dc electrical conductivity in strongly magnetized plasmas, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2105.03518
,2020, Friction Force in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2008.11126
,2020, Perspectives on Physics of ExB Discharges Relevant to Plasma Propulsion and Similar Technologies, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2007.09194
,2019, Electron power absorption in low pressure capacitively coupled electronegative oxygen radio frequency plasmas, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1911.02435
,2019, Transverse Force Induced by a Magnetized Wake, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1909.03121
,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
,2014, Instability-Enhanced Friction in the Presheath of Two-Ion-Species Plasmas, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1410.2773
,2013, Particle-in-cell simulations of a current-free double layer, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1301.3957
,2012, Simulation benchmarks for low-pressure plasmas: capacitive discharges, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1211.5246
,Other
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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