Select Publications
Conference Presentations
2023, 'DC electrical conductivity of strongly magnetized plasmas', presented at Dense Z-Pinch Conference 2023, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 09 July 2023
,2022, 'Bidirectional vortex stabilization of a supersonic ICP torch', presented at 75st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Sendai, Japan, 03 October 2022
,2022, 'Development and validation of iodine plasma models for electric propulsion systems', presented at 75st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Sendai, Japan, 03 October 2022
,2022, 'Novel transport properties of strongly magnetized plasmas', presented at 75st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Sendai, Japan, 03 October 2022
,2022, 'Secondary electron emission due to atomic and molecular iodine ion bombardment', presented at 75st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Sendai, Japan, 03 October 2022
,2022, 'Space-charge limited current flow: An analytical verification solution for kinetic and fluid simulations', presented at 75st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Sendai, Japan, 03 October 2022
,2022, 'The mechanism of frequency coupling in low pressure dual-frequency capacitively coupled plasmas revisted based on the Boltzmann term analysis', presented at 75st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Sendai, Japan, 03 October 2022
,2022, 'Characterization of a radio-frequency inductively coupled electrothermal plasma thruster', presented at International Online Plasma Seminar, virtual event, 31 March 2022, http://www.apsgec.org/assets/video/iops/iops_2021-03-31_Lafluer.mp4
,2022, 'The origin of the breathing mode in Hall thrusters and its stabilization', presented at ExB Plasma Workshop, virtual event, 16 February 2022
,2022, 'Investigation of neutral gas temperatures in a radio-frequency inductively coupled plasma system', presented at 22th Gaseous Electronics Meeting, Sydney, Australia, 14 February 2022
,2021, 'Collisional electron momentum loss in low temperature plasmas: On the validity of the classical approximation', presented at 74th Gaseous Electronics Conference, virtual event, 04 October 2021
,2021, 'Electron dynamics and anomalous processes in low-temperature plasmas', presented at 74th Gaseous Electronics Conference, virtual event, 04 October 2021
,2021, 'Comparison between kinetic theory and PIC simulations of anomalous electron transport in ExB plasma discharges', presented at International Online Plasma Seminar, virtual event, 28 January 2021
,2020, 'Expansion of a plasma plume with pulsed electron neutralization', presented at 73rd Gaseous Electronics Conference, virtual event, 05 October 2020
,2020, 'Friction and electrical conduction in strongly magnetized plasmas', presented at 73rd Gaseous Electronics Conference, virtual event, 05 October 2020
,2020, 'Oscillation analysis in Hall thrusters with 2D (axial-azimuthal) particle-in-cell simulations', presented at 73rd Gaseous Electronics Conference, virtual event, 05 October 2020
,2020, 'Space sustainability and the role of on-board propulsion', presented at The Australian Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management Conference, Canberra, Australia, 11 February 2020
,2019, 'Spatio-temporal analysis of electron power absorption in low pressure CCPs operated in O2', presented at 72nd Gaseous Electronics Conference, College Station, Texas, USA, 28 October 2019
,2019, 'Transverse force induced by a magnetized wake', presented at 61st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 21 October 2019
,2018, 'Effects of electron-drift instability in 1D fluid simulations of hall effect thrusters', presented at 71st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 05 November 2018
,2018, 'Influence of neutral pressure on instability enhanced friction and ion velocities at the sheath edge of two-ion-species plasmas', presented at 71st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 05 November 2018
,2018, 'Modelling of kinetic instabilities in low-temperature plasmas', presented at 71st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 05 November 2018
,2018, 'Spatio-temporal analysis of the electron power absorption in electropositive capacitive RF plasmas based on moments of the Boltzmann equation', presented at 71st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 05 November 2018
,2018, 'Anomalous plasma transport in hall effect thrusters', presented at 11th International Conference on Plasma-Nano Technology & Science, Nagoya, Japan, 04 March 2018
,2017, 'Bidimensional particle-in-cell simulations: Impact of dielectric walls on electron drift instability in Hall effect thrusters', presented at 70th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 06 November 2017
,2017, 'Entangled effects of electron drift instability and secondary electron emissions in Hall effect thrusters: Insights from 2D pic computations', presented at 70th Gaseous Electronics Conference,, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 06 November 2017
,2017, 'Modelling wall ion fluxes in an RF discharge: Insights from 2D PIC simulation', presented at 70th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 06 November 2017
,2017, 'Plasma sheath stability in the presence of secondary electron emission', presented at 70th Gaseous Electronics Conference,, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 06 November 2017
,2017, 'The role of instability-enhanced friction on electron transport in ExB discharges', presented at 70th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 06 November 2017
,2017, 'Experimental benchmarks of kinetic simulations of capacitively coupled plasmas', presented at 44th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics,, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 26 June 2017
,2017, 'Modelling of ion-gridded plasma thrusters powered by radiofrequency inductive coils', presented at 44th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 26 June 2017
,2017, 'Electron drift instabilities in ExB plasmas: Kinetic theory and PIC simulations', presented at ExB Plasmas for Space and Industrial Applications, Toulouse, France, 21 June 2017
,2017, 'Bi-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of Hall thrusters', presented at 6th Workshop on Radio Frequency Discharges,, Presqu’ile de Giens, France, 21 May 2017
,2017, 'The Bohm criterion in multi-ion plasmas and the role of ion-ion streaming instabilities', presented at 6th Workshop on Radio Frequency Discharges, Presqu’île de Giens, 21 May 2017
,2017, 'Electron drift instability and secondary electron emission in Hall effect thrusters: Insights from 2D pic simulations', presented at International Workshop on Ion Propulsion and Accelerator Industrial Application, Bari, Italy, 01 March 2017
,2017, 'Improvements in global modelling of gridded ion thrusters', presented at International Workshop on Ion Propulsion and Accelerator Industrial Application, Bari, Italy, 01 March 2017
,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
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