Plasma
Processing, Thin Film Deposition
Plasma-based Lighting Systems
Plasma Chemistry
Plasma Spray and Bulk Materials Work
Sources and Display Systems
Environmental and Health Applications
One-atmosphere plasma systems
Materials Synthesis
Switches, Relays, Focus, Antennas
Power Systems, Thrusters
examples - Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing
Plasma
Technology Sites Worldwide
Corporate sites and those focused on space or fusion not listed below
- alphabetical ordering (non-us alphabetical by country)
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U.S. University Research Centers
U.S. Research Laboratories
Research Laboratories (non-U.S.)
Corporate sites and those focused on space or fusion not listed below
- alphabetical ordering (non-us alphabetical by country)
For corporate sites worldwide see Sites Worldwide
U.S. University Research Centers
U.S. Research Laboratories
Research Laboratories (non-U.S.)
U.S. University Research Centers with Technology Emphasis
- Physics
and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles
(plasma and environmental physics laboratory and HIPAS) toxic waste treatment, plasma centrifuge for radioactive materials separation, basic experiments on non-linear wave growth, beam plasma interactions, parametric instabilities, caviton collapse, RF heating, dusty plasmas, laser induced fluorescence - Department
of Applied Science, University
of California Davis
microwave source and plasma interaction lab, advanced light source lab, microwave and millimeter wave technology - Fusion
Energy and Pulsed Power Research, University of California at Irvine
degradation of toxic chemicals, pulsed discharge in aerosol for waste water clean-up - High Temperature Gasdynamics Laboratory, Stanford University, California
non-equilibrium phenomena in partially ionized plasma, plasma chemistry, plasma processing, diamond film deposition, atmospheric re-entry, plasma chemistry diagnostics, atmospheric pressure plasma CVD, IR signature masking by air plasma radiation - Plasma
Accelerator Group, University of Southern California
m icrowave source and plasma interaction lab, advanced light source lab,
microwave and millimeter wave technology, laser-plasma applications - Center
for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado
(dusty plasma group) dusty plasma charging, lunar dust, noctilucent clouds, chondrule formation in lightning discharges, (particle accelerator group) nonlinear dynamics, application to plasma and beam physics - Computational Optical and Discharge Physics Group (CODPG), Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
develops computer simulations and applications of low temperature plasmas; Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools for plasma equipment design; plasma etch, deposition, lasers, pulse power switches, toxic gas remediation, lighting, display panels, nanocrystal generation, dusty plasmas, contamination-free manufacturing - Dept of
Physics, University of Central
Florida
accelerator physics, relativistic electron-field interactions, diamond thin film deposition, laser-produced plasmas as intense x-ray sources, laser-induced fusion, x-ray lasers - Waves
& Fields Laboratory, George Mason University
electron beam microwave device development, PIC code simulation, rotating wave resonators, field emission arrays (FEAs) - Plasma Applications Laboratory, University of Texas Dallas, Dallas, Texas
study of semiconductor processing plasmas; extensive experience in determining plasma kinetics;
focus on developing plasma diagnostics for semiconductor processing - Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials, University of Houston
space vacuum epitaxy, thin film materials technology - Elecrooptics,
Lasers, and Plasmas, University of Illinois
gaseous electronics, discharge physics, plasma-arc-driven electromagnetic railgun as ionized cluster beam deposition for thin film and nanocrystal fabrication, plasma spraying for superconducting thin films, fabrication of ultrafine particles, plasma spectroscopy, development and application of new sources of coherent radiation, electron beam excitation of semiconductor materials for laser applications, discharge physics, pulsed power, toxic gas remediation, plasma-surface interactions, computer simulations, plasma chemistry - Laboratory
for Spectrochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
plasma chemistry, microwave plasma torch spectrometry, plasma mass spectrometers and spectrograph, plasma modelling, scattering and laser-induced fluorescence, plasma chemistry links
Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
dusty plasma waves and instabilities, dust-ion acoustic waves, electrostatic dust-ion cyclotron wave, dust acoustic waves, electrostatic screening, dust grain charging, growth, levitation, sputtering, astrophysical dusty plasmas, strongly-coupled dusty plasmas, dust clouds in plasmas, dust growth, dust detection by Mie scattering, computer simulation of dusty plasmas - Plasma
Spectroscopy Group, Johns Hopkins University
plasma spectroscopy, fusion XUV diagnostics, atomic processes in cold plasmas, plasma processing - Institute
for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
ion beam microfabrication, experimental plasma phyics, high power microwave generation, plasma processing, chaos and nonlinear dynamics, intense beam focusing and stability, laser plasma interactions, diagnostics, lightning simulation, beam induced chemistry, micro-machining, free electron lasers, microwave generation - Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
laser-plasma interactions, gyroton oscillators and amplifiers, high gradient electron acceleration, intense beam theory, plasma technology, environmental monitoring technologies, waste treatment, plasmas for generation of hydrogen-rich gas for pollution reduction in vehicles - Plasma Engineering Laboratory, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
plasma processing of integrated circuits, electron devices, electromagnetics, vacuum microwave devices plasma vapor deposition, inductively coupled plasma etching, microplasma research - Dept
of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell
plasma processing of materials, induction heating of solids, RF induction plasmas, transferred arcs, plasma spraying, thermal plasma systems, computer simulations
(Dr. McKelliget also acts as moderator for the sci.physics.plasma newsgroup.) - University
of Michigan Intense Energy Beam Interaction Laboratory, Ann Arbor,
Michigan
fundamental physics and technology of interactions between beams of electrons, ions, plasma, microwaves, laser light and radio frequency radiation with plasmas, materials, structures, and biological cells; the lab employs state-of-the-art high-power accelerators, lasers, high power microwave sources, and diagnostic instrumentation. - Electronic
and Surface Properties of Materials, Michigan State University
plasma and electromagnetic processing of materials and microstructure engineering, diamond synthesis, plasma processing, electromagnetic sintering of ceramic - High
Temperature Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
arc technology and plasma heat transfer studies, anode and cathode heat transfer investigation, modeling of plasma flow and reactions, plasma spray nozzle development, process controls for plasma and wire arc spraying, thermal plasma
CVD of diamond and boron nitride films, synthesis of nanosized particles - Center
for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico
plasma etch, diagnostics - Nonequilibrium Gases and Plasmas, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
plasma fabrication, electromagnetics, simulation of nonequilibrium gas flows and plasmas, electric propulsion, materials processing - Center for the Plasma Processing of Material, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
plasma spray and coatings, spray forming, plasma melting, compositite materials, materials and coating sythesis, destruction or recycling of waste materials, testing and characterization, diagnostics - Plasma
Science Laboratories, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
industrial plasma engineering, interaction of microwaves and plasmas, air plasma generation, plasma simulations, microwave sources, sterilization and decontamination, environmental remediation, high energy density plasmas, one-atmosphere plasma systems research - Plasma
Applications Laboratory, University of Texas at Dallas
semiconductor processing discharges, diagnostics, plasma kinetics, pulsed high density plasmas - Applied
Plasma Technology Laboratory, Old Dominion University, Newport News,
Virginia
One-atmosphere plasma systems, non-equilibrium air plasmas, decontamination/sterilization by plasmas, interaction of electromagnetic (EM) waves with plasmas, plasma-based radiation sources - Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Plasma Processing and Technology Laboratory (PPTL)
Helically Symmetric Experiment (HSX) Plasma Lab
Computational Electromagnetics Lab - Center
for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing, C-PAM, Univ. of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin
thin and thick film deposition, plasma etching, surface modification, diagnostics, sources, sensors, modeling, control, and experimentation for plasma-aided manufacturing; plasma Source Ion Implantation (PSII) process to improve wear, corrosion, and electronic characteristics of material surface
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U.S. Research Laboratories with Technology Emphasis
- Argonne
Wakefield Accelerator, Argonne National Laboratory
laser-plasma wakefield particle accelerator research - Plasma
Spectroscopy Group
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland
plasma spectroscopy, XUV diagnostics, collisional-radiative modeling of highly ionized-high Z atoms (iron to uranium), atomic processes in cold plasma; (RTDC) aerodynamic flows in weakly ionized plasma environments and drag reduction - Army
Research Laboratory ARL
weapons and materials research, sensors and electron devices - Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
plasma valve for fast vacuum-air separation, plasma window, and electron beam welding - Defense
Sciences Office, DARPA
thin film coatings, environmental technologies - Defense
Sciences Engineering Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
power and pulser technology, fast pulse development, pulsed plasma processing, pollutant removal for effluent gases and toxic chemicals, pulsed power, plasma torches, hazardous waste remediation, metallurgical processing, materials synthesis, surface coatings - Plasma Physics Applications Group, Applied Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
contamination and uniformity control in plasma-processing tools, plasma source ion implantation, plasma nozzle flow control, intense ion beams for materials processing, accelerated plasmas and intense ion beams for commercial processing, metal-ion implantation/deposition using cathodic arcs - Photovoltaic
& Space Environment Effects, NASA Glenn Research Center
space plasma environmental effects, high voltage space power system interactions, arc suppression, plasma source testing, solar array plasma environment testing, sputtering, arcing and current-collection testing, insulating and coatings plasma compatibility testing, electron beam and sputtering of metals and insulators for coatings and electrical contacts - The Electric
Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Glenn Research Center
electric propulsion systems, resistojets, arcjets, ion thrusters, Hall effect thrusters, pulsed plasma thrusters, space environment simulation chambers - NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland
(physics/atomic physics) Plasma Radiation (physics/ion storage) Penning traps and non-neutral plasmas, (physics/materials physics and chemistry) semiconductor deposition plasmas, plasma etch (materials science & engineering) thin film processing (electromagnetic technology/semiconductor electronics) thin film process metrology (Chemistry/chemical science/process measurements/high temperature) spray combustion - Plasma
Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory
laser plasma, beam physics, nonlinear plasma dynamics, plasma spectroscopy, strongly coupled and degenerate plasmas, high power laser development, compact accelerator using relativistic klystron concept, microwave sources, lighting, plasma processing, fast radar, diagnostics, electron beam generators, beam propagation, high energy density plasmas, high-power switching, plasma opening switch, high power pulsed systems and loads, ultra high field laser-plasma interactions, high frequency microwave research, coherent radiation sources (gyrotrons, cyclotron masers, free electron lasers), laser-plasma driven accelerators, electromagnetic launcher experiments, helicopter charging analyses, agile mirror radar beam director, electrodeless discharge lamps - Advanced
Technology Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST Gaithersburg, MD
plasma technologies - in-house laboratories; external funding - Advanced Technology Program (ATP) - Fusion
Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
plasma processing, spectroscopy, diagnostics, fabrication of microelectronic devices, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PE CVD) films, RF and microwave technology - Plasma
Science & Technology at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
plasma processing of materials, plasma chemistry, thin film deposition, etching, cleaning and oxidizing surfaces, semiconductor fabrication, diagnostics
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Research Laboratories (non-U.S.) with Technology Emphasis (alphabetical by country)
- PLASMATECH, European Commission
The European network for plasma technology research applications in the fields of Textile, Food, Health, and Environment. - Plasma
Research Laboratory, Australian National University
plasma processing, pulsed plasma, reactive evaporation - Plasma
Physics Group, University of Sydney
plasma welding, plasma centrifuge for separation of isotopes for medicine and tracer applications, diamond project for diamond film growth using microwave plasma discharges, experiments: diamond synthesis reactor - Plasma
Instrumentation Laboratory, University of Canberra
plasma processing, automatic computer control of plasma processing - Manufacturing
& Infrastructure Technology, Joining and Thermal Processing, Plasma
Processing Manufacturing Systems, Plasma Control, CSIRO, Australia
plasma generating equipment, plasma smelting, plasma spraying, plasma forming (spheroidising), chemical processing at high temperatures, waste conversion and destruction, plasma process control and automated manufacturing systems - Australian
Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Sydney, Australia
plasma immersion ion implantation - Surface
and Plasma Technology, Technical University of Vienna
pulsed DC plasmas for plasma nitriding of surfaces and film deposition, plasma chemistry, diamond deposition - Atomic
and Plasma Physics, Technical University of Vienna
capillary-discharge plasmas for XUV-laser, diagnostics - Belgian
Forum for Plasma Science, Brussels, Ghent, Leuven, Antwerp
cold and hot plasma applications, glow discharges (Ghent) - Department
of Applied Physics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
industrial plasmas, especially non-thermal high-pressure plasmas; plasma sources for gas treatment, sterilization and high power lasers; fusion plasma research through Trilateral Euregio Cluster (TEC) - Plasma, Laser Ablation, and Surface Modeling, University of Antwerp, Belgium
glow discharge plasma modeling and diagnostics - INRS - Energy, Materials and Telecommunications [one of 7 research centers of the Intitut National
de la Recherche (INRS) within the Universite du Quebec] Sherbrooke,
Quebec, Canada
laser-materials interaction, ion implantation, surface and interface science, fusion - Plasma
Technology Research Centre, Universite de Sherbrooke, McGill Univ.,
Canada
thermal plasmas for material treatment, chemical synthesis, extractive metallurgy and toxic waste destruction; specific areas include design and development of plasma furnaces and torches, transfer phenomena and reaction kinetics, process development and design of plasma reactors for thin film and diamond film deposition, metallurgy, mechanical alloying, fusion of dross, minerals treatment, industrial waste valorization and toxis waste destruction, plasma chemistry conferences - Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies, University of Toronto, Toronto,
Canada
dedicated to basic and applied research in industrial coating applications; conducts both analytic and experimental research in thermal spray coatings including atmospheric plasma spray systems - Electromagnetics, Photonics, and Plasmas (EPP),
University of Alberta
electromagnetic interactions, laser plasma interactions, laser plasma theory - Physics
Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
plasma diagnostics, etching of materials, HF plasma design and modeling for surface treatment, especially polymer and diamond thin film deposition - Laboratory of Michael Blades, University of British Columbia, Canada
plasma chemistry, capacitively coupled plasmas, ion trap mass spectrometry - Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies, University of Toronto, Canada
fundamental and applied research in industrial coatings applications - High-Field Physics and Ultrafast Technology Laboratory, Academia Sinica, China
Laser-plasma particle accelerator, plasma nonlinear optics, high-field and x-ray laser technology - Institute
of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
plasma chemistry, plasma spraying, plasma decomposition, plasmas for materials research, one-atmosphere chemically active non-equilibrium plasma flows - Physics
Dept, Masaryk University
Brno, Czech Republic
plasma discharge - Applied Optics Group, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
plasma spraying, diagnostics for high temperature and pressure, diamond film CVD - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France
plasma processing, thin film deposition, laser plasmas, plasma lighting, quark-gluon plasma - Centre
de Physique des Plasmas et Applications de Toulouse, Universite
Paul Sabatier
cold plasmas, modeling non-equilibrium plasmas, thermal plasmas and radiation, kinetics in rare gases, photon sources (lamps, lasers, plasma display panels), reactive species sources (for surface treatment or destruction of noxious molecules), charged particle sources (electron or ion beams, for surface treatment, propulsion), plasma based switches - Research
Group on Energetics of Ionized Gases G.R.E.M.I., Universite d'Orleans,
Orleans, France
surface treatment, laser ablation, etching, plasma sputtering, dusty plasmas, pulsed discharge, x-ray sources, plasma thrusters, plasma spectroscopy, switching arcs, plasma chemistry, dielectric barrier discharges, gas pollution treatment - Center
for Energy and Processes: Energy and Innovation Technologies, Ecole des
Mines de Paris, Sophia Antipolis Site
plasmas for hydrocarbon conversion, arc zone studies, hydrodynamic modeling - Laboratoire
de Physique des Milieux Ionises, Universite Henri Poincare, Nancy
(French only)
plasma processing, semiconductor processing - Laboratoire
Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, France
(French only)
laser-plasma interactions, ultra-fast plasmas, laser plasma particle acceleration - Lehrstuhl fur Experimentelle Plasmaphysik Universitat Augsburg Augsburg, Germany microwave and high-frequency plasmas, diagnostics, plasmas and chemical erosion
- Center for Plasma Science and Technology, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Bochum, Germany
application-oriented plasma physics, low-temp. plasmas in reactive gases, plasma-surface interactions, thin film deposition, fusion wall conditioning, high-frequency and microwave discharges, plasma spectroscopy, plasma-ion-mass-spectroscopy, wave propagation and absorption, fluctuations, light scattering, Mie-ellipsometry, laser and plasma physics, exploding wire, capillary discharge, laser plasmas, micro pinch, theta pinch, vacuum sparc, light scattering in plasmas, IR-absorption spectroscopy for plasma diagnostics - Institute
of Physics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany
low-temperature plasma physics, theory of dense plasmas, plasma chemistry, plasma processing, diagnostics, rf, hollow-cathode and other gas discharges - Interfacial Technology,
Fraunhofer IGB, Fraunhofer Institute Center, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany
plasma technology, plasma chemistry, plasma cleaning, modification of polymer surfaces, textile treatment, plasma coatings, metal surface purification, scratch resistant coatings, tables of advantages and applications for plasma produced layers - Institute
for Laser and Plasma Physics, Heinrich-Heine Universitat, Dusseldorf,
Germany
arcs, cleaning of engine exhaust by microwave discharge, nanoparticle synthesis using inductively coupled plasmas, plasma materials processing, XUV source from pulsed CO2 laser plasma, arcs, diagnostics, laser-induced plasmas - Plasma Technology Laboratory, University of Patras, Greece
plasma chemistry, plasma surface interactions, sources and tools, modeling, diagnostics,
plasma enhanced deposition (PECVD) - Institute
for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India
plasma processing, plasma nitriding reactor for case hardening, plasma polymerisation and metallurgy, metal recovery, synthesis, surface engineering, plasma pyrolysis for hospital waste disposal,
fusion plasmas, steady-state superconducting Tokamak (SST-1) - Laser Plasma Division, Center for Advanced Technology, Indore, India
hot, dense laser-produced plasma, plasma hydrodynamics, self-generated fields - Electrical
Discharge and Plasma Laboratory, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
vacuum arc deposition for thin films and metallurgical coatings, corona, discharge applications in forensic science, Kirlian (corona discharge imaging) photo gallary, Arcs and Sparks photo gallery - Institute
for Chemical and Physical Processes, Pisa, Italy
electromagnetic wave propagation in plasmas, plasma processing, medical and biological laser interactions, intense sources for X-ray microscopy and microlithography - Plasma
& Polymer Research Group, University of Bari, Italy
Research and graduate training in various cold plasma and thermal plasma applications: vapor-resistant barrier films, teflon-like films, corrosion protection, anti-mould, anti-algae, and antibacterial coatings, and hemocompatible coatings for biomedicine; dry-etching with low environmental impact; thermal plasma techniques toxic waste destruction. - Plasma
Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Kawabe, Japan
non-equilibrium plasmas, chaotic phenomena, plasma based neutron sources, plasma-solid surface interactions, environmental plasma technologies (especially dissociation of CFC and dioxin gases), plasma light sources, organic thin film for future computers, lead battery enhancement - Laboratory of Plasma, Laser, and Computational Electromagnetism (LaPlace), Kyushu Institute of Technology
spacecraft plasma environmental interaction, gas insulation, electromagnetic compatibility - Plasma
Laboratory, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
flat panel display development, (phys. educ.) plasma and RF devices (Gun-Sik Park) - Physics
Dept, Plasma Research Laboratory University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
pulsed capillary discharge, flash x-ray tube and pulsed electron beam source, low-temperature plasmas, including glow, RF, microwave and corona discharges, plasma opening switches, experiments: plasma opening switch, plasma focus - Plasma
Physics and Radiation Technology, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
[Equilibrium and Transport in Plasmas(ETP Group)] fast tomography on plasmas, deposition, incineration gases analyses, high-intensity atom source, inductively coupled plasmas (ICP), lighting plasmas
[Elementary Processes in GasDischarges (EPG Group)] dusty plasmas - coulomb crystals, Mie scattering ellipsometry, coating/etching of particles suspended in plasmas etching/depositing plasmas, plasma display panels, corona discharges - removal of chemical contaminations in waters - Institute
of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
plasma electrodynamics, nonlinear processes, high-power electronics, laser-plasma interactions - Institute
of RadioEngineering & Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow
electromagnetism and Antennas, Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics, thin film technology
space radio science - Division of Plasma Physics, Alfven Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
electromagnetics (antennas), electrophysics (electron accelerators, plasma technology) - Dept of Plasma Physics, Comenius
- Plasma
Physics Research Center (CRPP) of Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
plasma processing, silicon deposition for photovoltaics, diamond and cubic boron nitride deposition, powder in low temperature, low-pressure plasmas - Plasma Physics
Group, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
laser wakefield accelerators, short-pulse laser solid interactions - Oxford
Plasma Physics and Pulsed Power Group, Oxford, United Kingdom
dusty plasmas, double layers, capacitively and inductively coupled RF plasmas - Surface Science Laboratory, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
focused on the understanding and design of functional surfaces; plasma deposition, surface treatment, metallization, polymerized fluoropolymer film, organic polymeric substrates, etc. - CVD Diamond Group, School of Chemistry, Bristol University, UK
plasma chemistry, semiconductor materials dry etching, diamond thin film etching
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