Projects
Collaborative User Projects
This page lists PCRF collaborative research projects from annual solicitations in FY20 - FY24.
- Danil Dobrynin, Drexel Univ., Rapid: “Measurements of OH Radical Concentrations in Uniform and Non-uniform Nanosecond-pulsed Atmospheric Air Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma”, runtime in FY20
- Alexandros Gerakis, Texas A&M Univ., “Development of Theory and Experimental Operational Framework for Coherent Thomson Scattering”, runtime in FY20
- Debbie Levin, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Understanding the Role of Electrostatic Solitary Waves in Beam Neutralization”, runtime in FY20
- Scott Walton, Naval Research Laboratory, “Probing Metastable Species in Electron Beam Generated Plasmas”, runtime in FY20/21
- Bruce Locke, Florida State Univ., “Time Resolved Optical Emission Spectroscopy of Nanosecond Pulsed Discharges in a Gas-Liquid Water Film Reactor”, runtime in FY20
- Stein van Eden, ASML, Rapid: “Measuring the Secondary Electron Yield of a Dielectric Surface”, runtime in FY20
- Kai-Mei Fu, Univ. of Washington, Rapid: “Cold-plasma Hydrogen Surface Passivation of Diamond for Charge State Control in Quantum Defects”, runtime in FY20
- Tiernan Casey, Sandia National Laboratories, “Analysis of H Ion Plasma Chemical Kinetics Models Using Global Sensitivity Analysis”, runtime in FY20
- Sergey Macheret, Purdue Univ., “Kinetic Modeling of Capacitively Coupled Macro- and Microplasmas at Microwave Frequencies”, runtime in FY20
- Surabhi Jaiswal, Auburn Univ., “Investigation of the Size of Growing Nanoparticles in Ar/C2H2 Plasma Using Laser Induced Incandescence”, runtime in FY20 (cancelled, PI moved to a different university)
- Xuewei Zhang, Texas A&M Univ.-Kingsville, “Sources of Primary Electrons in Nanosecond Pulsed Breakdown in Water”, runtime in FY20
- Andrey Starikovskiy, Princeton Univ., “FS Laser Control for High-Voltage NS Discharges”, runtime in FY20
- Alexander Fridman, Drexel University, “Theory and Modeling of Nanocrystalline-Amorphous Transition in Liquids”, runtime in FY20
- Luca Maddalena, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, “Non-intrusive Measurements Using Femtosecond Laser in Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet”, runtime in FY20
- Katharina Stapelmann, North Carolina State Univ., “Plasma Generated Atomic Oxygen Density Measurements in Liquid using TALIF”, runtime in FY20
- Sergey Leonov, Univ. of Notre Dame, “Waves of Electric Charge Generated by Pulse Corona of Alternating Polarity”, runtime in FY20/21
- Sam Cohen, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Rapid: “Application of fs TALIF for Neutral Atom Density Measurements in a Linear, Quasi-steady-state Plasma Device”, runtime in FY20
- Maria Carreon, North Dakota School of Mines, “Understanding the Cold Plasma Synthesis of Ammonia with Model Metal Catalysts Through Plasma Diagnostics”, runtime in FY20
- Gal Haspel, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rapid: “Surface Sterilization of Medical Equipment with Low Temperature Plasma”, runtime in FY20
- Elijah Thimsen, Washington Univ. in Saint Louis, “Correlation of Plasma Parameters to Reduction Potential at the Plasma-Water Interface”, runtime in FY20
- Danil Dobrynin, Drexel Univ., “Measurements of OH Radical Concentrations in Uniform and Non-uniform Nanosecond-pulsed Atmospheric Air Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma”, runtime in FY20/21
- Mark Cappelli, Stanford Univ., “Ion Velocity Measurements in the Negative Sheath of a Highly Obstructed Magnetron Microdischarge”, runtime in FY21/FY22
- Kai-Mei Fu, Univ. of Washington, “Cold Hydrogen Plasma Passivation for Quantum Defect Charge State Control”, runtime in FY21/22
- Benjamin Rubin, Veeco, “Measurements of Electron Energy Distributions of Ion Beam Neutralizers”, runtime in FY21
- Angela Capece, The College of New Jersey, “Understanding Nanoparticle Synthesis in Plasma-Liquid Systems”, runtime in FY21/22 (moved to FY23)
- Michael Campanell, LLNL, “Demonstrating the Effects of Trapped Ions on Thermionic Cathode Sheath”, runtime in FY22/23
- Probir Roy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, “Investigation of Air Plasma for High Energy Beam Propagation in Air Using Plasma Codes to Validate Experimental Results”, runtime in FY21
- Thomas Schenkel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “Simulations of Hydrogen Plasma Discharges”, runtime in FY21
- Peter Yushmanov, TAE Technologies , “PIC Simulation of Near Electrode Plasmas With Self-Consistent Gas Recycling from the Wall”, runtime in FY21
- Valerian Nemchinsky, Keiser University, “Anode and Near-anode Processes in the Ablating Carbon Arcs”, runtime in FY21 (cancelled: PI could not secure funding)
- Debbie Levin, Univ. of Illinois and Edgar Choueiri, Princeton Univ., “Benchmarking of High-Performance Low-temperature Plasma Particle-in-cell Codes”, runtime in FY22 (moved to FY23)
- Ken Hara, Stanford Univ., “Modeling of Liquid Surface Instabilities Interacting With Partially Ionized Plasmas”, runtime in FY21
- Joshua Coleman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, “Neutralized Electron Beam Transport and Instability Studies”, runtime in FY21 (postponed)
- Albina Tropina, Texas A&M Univ., “Control of the Fuel Droplets Heating and Evaporation by the Laser Pulse”, runtime in FY21
- Sergey Gimelshein, Particle Matter Inc., “Plasma-Assisted Post-Ionization of the Laser-Ablated Plumes” runtime in FY21/22
- Sam Cohen, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, “Non-invasive Neutral Atom Density Measurements in a Linear, Quasi-steady-state Plasma Device”, runtime in FY21
- Carmen Guerra-Garcia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Electric Fields Inside Streamer Corona and Self-pulsating Mode Under DC Voltage”, runtime in FY21
- K. A. Ahmed, Univ. of Central Florida, “Translational and Vibrational Temperature Evolution in Fuel/air Flows as a Function of Pulse Frequency Using ns Discharges”, runtime in FY21
- Lorenzo Mangolini, Univ. of California, Riverside, “Characterization of Low-temperature Dusty Plasma”, runtime in FY21/22 (moved to FY23)
- Malcolm Carroll, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, “Two-level Systems and Their Dependence on Interface State Densities Created by Atomic Hydrogen Exposure”, runtime in FY21/22 (Canceled: PI moved to a different organization)
- Jonathan S. Owen, Columbia Univ. and Alastair Stacey, RMIT (Australia), “Feasibility Study of Volumetric Mass Production of Diamond Nanocrystals in Plasma”, runtime in FY22 (postponed)
- Zhili Zhang Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville, “Ultrafast Measurements of Atomic Species in Laser-induced Plasmas using Two-photon Absorption Laser Induced Fluorescence”, runtime in FY21/22
- Gal Haspel, New Jersey Institute of Technology, “Cold Atmospheric Plasma for Promoting Neural Regeneration”, runtime in FY21
- Katharina Stapelmann, North Carolina State Univ., “Plasma-Bubble Imaging and Spectroscopy”, runtime in FY21
- Carles Corbella, The George Washington Univ., “In Situ IR Spectroscopy of a Morphing Plasma Jet at Atmospheric Pressure”, runtime in FY21/22
- John Foster, Univ. of Michigan, “Measurement of Decomposition Products from the Interaction of an Atmospheric Pressure Nonthermal Plasma and a Polymer Substrate”, runtime in FY21/22
- Bruce Locke, Florida State Univ., “Time Resolved Laser Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Nanosecond Pulsed Discharges in a Gas-Liquid Water Film Reactor”, runtime in FY21/22
- Mohan Sankaran, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “Characterization of Gas-phase Nitrogen Chemistry at a Plasma-water Interface”, runtime in FY21/22 (moved to FY23)
- Selma Mededovic Thagard, Clarkson Univ., “Coupling of Plasma Diagnostics with Bulk Liquid Chemistry for Understanding of Solvation at Plasma-water Interface”, runtime in FY21
- Maksim Mezhericher, Princeton Univ., “Plasma-Activated Aerosols of Submicron Droplets for Healthcare and Biomedical Application”, runtime in FY21
- Rebecca Anthony and Sergey Baryshev, Michigan State Univ., “Laser-induced Fluorescence and Incandescence for Diagnostics of Plasma-Assisted Synthesis of Diamond Nanocrystals”, runtime in FY21/22
- Andrei Smolyakov, Univ. of Saskatchewan (Canada) and J-P. Boeuf, CNRS LAPLACE, “The ExB Plasma Reference Cell for Physics Studies and Codes Validation”, runtime in FY22/23
- Richard Wirz, UCLA, “Secondary Electron Emission from Volumetrically Complex Carbon Materials”, runtime in FY22
- John Foster, Univ. of Michigan, “Understanding Extraction Limits of Plasma Cathodes with Experiment and Simulation”, runtime in FY22
- June Young, Kim, Seoul National Univ. (Korea), “Kinetic Simulation of Narrow Gap Discharge”, runtime in FY22
- Alex Povitsky, Univ. of Akron, “Thermal Radiation Model in Rayleigh Regime for Ensemble of Nanoparticles in Gas and Plasma”, runtime in FY22/23
- Alexey Shashurin, Purdue Univ., “Exploring Anomalous Electron Decay in Nanosecond Repetitively Pulsed Discharges”, runtime in FY22/23
- Sean D. Knecht, Penn State Univ., “Spatially-resolved Electric Field Measurements During Plasma-Enhanced Catalysis of CO2 and H2 to Higher Hydrocarbons Across Supported-metal Catalysts”, runtime in FY22
- Vandana Miller, Drexel Univ., “To Investigate the Influence of Biological Substrates on Dielectric Barrier Discharge Composition”, runtime in FY22
- Maria Carreon, Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell, “Understanding Boundaries Between Regimes During the Plasma Synthesis of Ammonia on Mesoporous Oxide-based Catalysts Through Plasma Diagnostics”, runtime in FY22
- David Caron, Ahmed Diallo, and Bruce Koel, Princeton Univ., “Electron Dynamics in Plasma-Assisted Catalytic Reactions of Ammonia”, runtime in FY22
- Selma Mededovic Thagard, Clarkson University, "Investigating the changes of the plasma-liquid contact area to improve the treatment performance of gas-liquid electrical discharge plasma reactors", runtime in FY23
- Edward Hartsough," College of Medicine, Drexel University", "Non-thermal plasma as a neoadjuvant for melanoma treatment", runtime in FY23
- Thomas C. Underwood, University of Texas at Austin, "Plasma Driven Pathways to Life on the Early Earth", runtime in FY23
- Junhwi Bak, Texas A&M University, "Investigation of supersonic electrons in rotating plasma by laser Thomson scattering", runtime in FY23
- Kimberly Parker and Elijah Thimsen, Washington University in St. Louis, "Liquid ionic composition and plasma-phase species", runtime in FY23
- John Foster, University of Michigan, "Probing the relationship between the electron spatial distribution, negative ions and the appearance of self-organized surface plasmas attachments in atmospheric pressure plasma", runtime in FY23
- R. Mohan Sankaran and Davide Curreli , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , "Laser diagnostics of nitrogen fixation at a plasma-liquid interface", runtime in FY23
- Thomas Schenkel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Plasma based hydrogen doping of semiconductors for color center qubit optimization", runtime in FY23
- Sedina Tsikata, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Investigation of complex mode formation in a planar magnetron", runtime in FY23
- Aditi Roy, Siemens Technology USA, "In situ Detection of Plasma Induced Surface Interaction based on Deep Learning based Visual Diagnostics", runtime in FY23
- Andrey Starikovskiy, Princeton University, "Photoionization mechanism of branching of streamer discharge in air", runtime in FY23
- Peter J. Bruggeman, University of Minnesota, "TaLIF measurements of sodium vapor in plasmas in contact with saline solutions", runtime in FY23
- Stephan Reuter and Denis Seletskiy, Polytechnique Montreal (Canada), "Highly sensitive small scale electric field detection in turbulent filamentary plasmas", runtime in FY23
- Azer Yalin, Colorado State University, "Spontaneous Raman Scattering and Optical Emission Spectroscopy Study of Dual-Pulse Laser Induced Plasma with Pre-Ionization", runtime in FY23
- Marien Simeni, University of Minnesota, "Development of Theory for Tin Microspheres-based 13.5 nm Soft X-ray Laser for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography", runtime in FY23
- Vandana Miller, Drexel University, "To investigate the influence of ionic changes produced in cell culture medium by dielectric barrier discharge on cell morphology and membrane permittivity", runtime in FY23
- Albina Tropina, Texas A&M University, "Influence of light ellipticity on dynamics of the laser induced plasma", runtime in FY23
- Ali Mesbah, University of California, Berkeley, "Investigating kinetic mechanisms of soot formation in plasma pyrolysis of methane via active learning", runtime in FY23
- Jonathan S. Owen and Alastair Stacey, Columbia University and RMIT (Australia), "Modeling of nirim plasma reactor for the volumetric mass production of diamond nanocrystals", runtime in FY23
- Uwe Kortshagen and Julian Held, University of Minnesota, "New model for the ion collection by cylindrical probes over a wide range of collisionality", runtime in FY23
- Pierre-Yves Taunay, United States Naval Academy, "Kinetic simulations of hollow cathode internal and plume plasmas", runtime in FY23
- Mruthunjaya Uddi, Advanced Cooling Technologies, PA, "Methyl Radical Measurements to Understand Plasma-Surface Interactions in Thin Film Coating", runtime in FY24
- Boris S. Leonov, Texas A&M University, "Study of Thermochemical Non-equilibrium Relaxation in Sub-Atmospheric DC Glow Charges using Ro-Vibrational CARS", runtime in FY24
- Zhili Zhang, University of Tennessee, "Qualifying Vibrational Nitrogen in Non-Thermal Plasmas for Enhanced NH3 Synthesis with Calcium-Based Catalysts", runtime in FY24
- David B. Go, University of Notre Dame, "Investigation of Reaction Pathways and Temperature Inhibition in Methane DBD Plasmas" runtime in FY24
- Lifeng Zhang, North Carolina A&T State University, "Short-chain PAS Destruction on Nanofibrous Adsorbents using Low Temperature Plasma" runtime in FY24
- Bruce R. Locke, Florida State University, "Connecting Gas-Liquid Chemical Reactions with Nanosecond Pulse and Plasma Properties: Role of Pulse Delivery in Bursts" runtime in FY24
- Amanda M. Lietz, North Carolina State University, "Impacts of Secondary Electron Emission on Radiofrequency Discharges Driven by Tailored Voltage Waveforms" runtime in FY24
- Vladimir Demidov, West Virginia University, "Modeling of Analytical Gas Discharge Sensors with large Electric Probes" runtime in FY24
- Christopher Galea, Princeton Satellite Systems DBA Princeton Fusion Systems, "Analysis of Initial Plasma Densification of a Field-Reversed Configuration with an Odd-Parity Rotating Magnetic Field" runtime in FY24
- Young-chul Ghim, KAIST, "PIC Simulation of Magnetized Low Temperature Plasmas around the Magnetic X-Point in the Two-Wire Mode" runtime in FY24
- Maryam Younessi Sinaki, Cleveland State University, "Kinetic Modeling of the Thermocatalytic Decomposition of Methane in a Plasma-Heathed Fluidized Bed Reactor for the Prediction of Hydrogen Production and Carbon Deposition" runtime in FY24
- Joseph Wang, University of Southern California, "Quantifying the Effects of Numerical Noise for Modeling Electron Thermodynamics in Collisionless Plasmas: Vlasov and PIC Simulations" runtime in FY24
- Vincent Donnelly, University of Houston, "Validation of and Quantification of the Plasma Optical Emission Actinometry Method, using Laser-induced Flourescence" runtime in FY24
- Gennady Shvets, Cornell University, "An Experimental Study on Excitation and Diffraction of Topologically Robust Surface Plasma Waves in a Diverging Magnetic Field Profile" runtime in FY24
- Vladimir I. Kolobov, University of Alabama Huntsville, "Formation of a 'Pancake' Spot as a Liquid Cathode Surface" runtime in FY24
- Sean McGuire, CentraleSupelec, Paris, "Characterization of Laser-Plasma Emission Dynamics" runtime in FY24
- Alex Povitsky, University of Akron, "Heating of an Ensemble of Nanoparticles in a Plasma Radiation Field in Rayleigh Regime with Considering Radiative Exchange Between Particles" runtime in FY24
- Jonathan S. Owen and Alastair Stacey, Columbia University and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, "Nitridation of atomically smooth [111] diamond surfaces using an E x B microwave plasma discharge" runtime in FY24
- Svetlana Starikovskaia, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, "Capillary nanosecond discharge: O-atoms quenching" runtime in FY24