ResearchProjects and research topics

Our research interests

The breadth and scope of research in our field is well illustrated in the report of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA Plasma Science: Advancing Knowledge in the National Interest. Our research covers all areas of Plasma Science and Engineering: Low Temperature Plasma Science and Engineering, Basica Plasma Science, The Plasma Science of Magnetic Fusion, Plasma Physics at High Energy Density, Space and Astrophysical Plasmas, with a broad methodological approach ranging from theory and simulations to experiments, from fundamental science to engineering.

The research of the faculty members of the Scientific Area of Plasmas, Lasers and Nuclear Fusion is developed in the Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion at IST. In the website of IPFN you can learn about the many different projects developed at IST in this field. You can browse through the research interests of our faculty members in the faculty webpage and in the individual webpages of the faculty members. Some of the most recent publications of the faculty members are highlighted below. You can also check the news section to learn about the exciting developments pioneered by the faculty members of the the Scientific Area of Plasmas, Lasers and Nuclear Fusion.

Publications

• Miguel Jiménez-Redondo, Audrey Chatain, Olivier Guaitella, Guy Cernogora, ..., N2–H2 capacitively coupled radio-frequency discharges at low pressure: II. Modeling results: the relevance of plasma-surface interaction, Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2020)
• Shukla, N., Schoeffler, K., Boella, E., Vieira, J., ..., Interplay between the Weibel instability and the Biermann battery in realistic laser-solid interactions, Physical Review Research (2020)
• M Jirka, M Vranic, T Grismayer, L O Silva, Scaling laws for direct laser acceleration in a radiation-reaction dominated regime, New Journal of Physics (2020)
• K. M. Schoeffler, L. O. Silva, Effects of collisions on the generation and suppression of temperature anisotropies and the Weibel instability, Physical Review Research (2020)
• Assmann, R.W., Weikum, M.K., Akhter, T., Alesini, D., ..., EuPRAXIA Conceptual Design Report, European Physical Journal: Special Topics (2020)
• Polina Ogloblina, Antonio Tejero-del-Caz, Vasco Guerra, Luís L Alves, Electron impact cross sections for carbon monoxide and their importance in the electron kinetics of CO2–CO mixtures, Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2020)
• Lino da Silva, M., Ferreira, R., Vargas, J., Rodrigues, R., ..., European shock-tube for high enthalpy research: Design and instrumentation, manufacturing, and acceptance testing, AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum (2020)
• A F Silva, A S Morillo-Candás, A Tejero-del-Caz, L L Alves, ..., A reaction mechanism for vibrationally-cold low-pressure CO2 plasmas, Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2020)
• Polina Ogloblina, Ana Sofia Morillo-Candas, Ana Filipa Silva, Tiago Silva, ..., Mars in situ oxygen and propellant production by non-equilibrium plasmas, (2020)
• L Terraz, T Silva, A Morillo-Candas, O Guaitella, ..., Influence of N2 on the CO2 vibrational distribution function and dissociation yield in non-equilibrium plasmas, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (2020)
• Audrey Chatain, Miguel Jiménez-Redondo, Ludovic Vettier, Olivier Guaitella, ..., N2–H2 capacitively coupled radio-frequency discharges at low pressure. Part I. Experimental results: effect of the H2 amount on electrons, positive ions and ammonia formation, Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2020)
• Trines, R.M.G.M., Alves, E.P., Webb, E., Vieira, J., ..., New criteria for efficient Raman and Brillouin amplification of laser beams in plasma, Scientific Reports (2020)
• Shaukat, M. I., Slaoui, A., Terças, H., Daoud, M., Phonon-mediated quantum discord in dark solitons, The European Physical Journal Plus (2020)
• Rodrigues, J.D., Mendonça, J.T., Terças, H., Turbulence excitation in counterstreaming paraxial superfluids of light, Physical Review A (2020)
• J T Mendonça, H Terças, J D Rodrigues, Axion excitation by intense laser fields in a plasma, Physica Scripta (2020)
• Mendonça, J.T., Terças, H., Rodrigues, J.D., Gammal, A., Casimir force between two vortices in a turbulent bose–einstein condensate, Atoms (2020)
• M. Miskeen Khan, S. Ribeiro, J. T. Mendonça, H. Terças, Sideband ground-state cooling of graphene with Rydberg atoms via vacuum forces, Physical Review A (2020)
• J. T. Mendonça, J. D. Rodrigues, H. Terças, Axion production in unstable magnetized plasmas, Physical Review D (2020)
• João E. H. Braz, H. Terças, Bound-state spectrum of an impurity in a quantum vortex, Physical Review A (2020)
• Belo, J.H., Varela, P., Silva, A., Benchmarking of the EM modelling of the ITER plasma position reflectometry in-vessel antennas with a metallic target using prototype tests, Journal of Instrumentation (2020)