Speaker Nomination
For May - October 2025, IOPS speakers can be nominated via the GEC website by anyone from low temperature plasma and collision physics communities until March 20, 2025.
With speakers' consent, presentations are recorded and are made available for on-demand viewing through the GEC IOPS website.
Two types of seminars will be presented:
Types of Seminars
- Research Highlight (20 minutes + questions): This presentation is intended to summarize a recent publication, and is more highly focused on the topic of the publication.
- Tutorial/Review (30-45 minutes + questions): This presentation more broadly addresses a topic, and is more like a traditional departmental seminar.
GEC is happy to organize the International Online Plasma Seminar (IOPS), a non-profit international seminar, in order to engage the GEC community throughout the year. The main purpose of the seminar is to make high quality research results in low temperature plasma science and collisional physics available to our community at no cost and interactively, as well as to foster scientific discussion. The IOPS sessions happen bi-weekly via Zoom. In this way presentations, that are otherwise only accessible at conferences, are available to anybody - including those who cannot attend classical onsite meetings due to travel restrictions, financial challenges, or other reasons. The virtual seminar is particularly relevant during the pandemic due to social distancing and travel restrictions. Moreover, often students cannot afford to attend on-site seminars, and have no access to such presentations. The virtual IOPS at no cost is available to the students and everyone in the GEC community
Following each presentation at the IOPS, questions can be asked by all attendees verbally and the speaker can answer them. Based on the speaker’s written consent, presentations will be recorded and will be made available for on-demand download. If speakers do not agree to do this, the presentations can still be given, but will not be recorded. The IOPS speakers can be nominated by anybody and are selected by the IOPS committee (Julian Schulze, Li Wang, Pankaj Attri, Sandra Quintanilla, Yang-Yang Fu, Jun-Chieh Wang and Quan-Zhi Zhang). Additionally, IOPS collaborates with OLTP (Online Low Temperature Plasma) to organize joint seminars.
IOPS Presentations begin at 1:00 pm UTC on Thursdays.
Online Low Temperature Plasma (OLTP) seminars begin at 1:00 pm UTC on Tuesdays.
For more information, and to request the Zoom link and password, please contact the IOPS Chair Jun-Chieh Wang (wangjj0120@gmail.com), or Co-Chair Quan-Zhi Zhang (qzzhang@dlut.edu.cn).
The International Online Plasma Seminar is sponsored by Hiden Analytical.
Current Seminars
2025
| Date | Speaker (Affiliation) | Presentation |
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1/2/2025 Research Highlight |
Han Luo (Applied Materials) | Particle-in-cell modeling of low-pressure radio frequency hollow cathode discharge. Video recording |
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1/2/2025 Research Highlight |
Min Keun Lee (Seoul National University) | Discharge Mode Transition in Partially Magnetized E×B Penning Discharge. |
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1/16/2025 Tutorial/Review |
Petr Bilek (Institute of Plasma Physics of Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic) | Kinetic models of radiative states in low-temperature plasma relevant for optical diagnostics of nanosecond discharges Video recording |
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1/30/2025 Research Highlight |
Charan Nallapareddy (University of Texas) | Plasma chemical process and its diagnostics Video recording |
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1/30/2025 Research Highlight |
Margherita Altin (Maastricht University) | Control of NOx formation and transfer in a flowing plasma reactor. Video recording |
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2/13/2025 Research Highlight |
Lucia Švandová (Department of Plasma Physics and Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia) | Complex characterisation of Cr-doped α-Al2O3 for DBD applications. Video recording |
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2/13/2025 Research Highlight |
Prerna Unadkat (Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research) | A Novel Multi-Aperture r-θ Configuration-Based Pseudospark-Driven Electron Beam Source. Video recording |
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2/27/2025 Tutorial/Review |
Hans Höft (INP Greifswald) | Fast diagnostics of pulsed discharges at atmospheric pressure. Video recording |
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3/13/2025 Research Highlight |
Adam Obrusnik (Masaryk University, Plasma Solve, Czech Republic) | Simulation-guided development of a magnetized low-pressure air plasma source for electric propulsion applications: global plasma modeling Video recording |
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3/27/2025 Tutorial/Review |
Thomas Trottenberg (Kiel University, Germany) | Advanced diagnostics for electric space propulsion Video recording |
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4/10/2025 Research Highlight |
Christian Kiefer (Max-Planck-Institute of Plasma Physics, Germany) | CO2 dissociation using a lab-scale microwave plasma torch: An experimental study in view of industrial application Video recording |
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4/10/2025 Research Highlight |
Sergey Soldatov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) | Optimizing Gas Quenching for Improved CO2 Conversion in a Surface-Wave Microwave Reactor Video recording |
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4/24/2025 Tutorial/Review |
Vincent Donnelly (University of Houston) | Plasma-surface interaction |
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05/08/25 Research Highlight |
Archis Joglekar (Ergodic LLC, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, University of Rochester) | Applying Differentiable Programming and Machine Learning to Solve Inverse Problems in Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Plasma Physics |
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05/22/25 Research Highlight |
Stanislav Musikhin (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) | Peculiarities of continuous synthesis of SWCNTs using a DC arc discharge with a molten metal anode |
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05/22/25 Research Highlight |
Yifan Gui (University of Michigan) | Control of Core–shell Nanoparticles Properties through Plasma Synthesis: a Computational Study |
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06/05/25 Research Highlight |
Daniel Main (Tech-X) | Fast kinetic modeling of the plasma evolution, etch rate and deposition profile in direct current magnetron sputtering |
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07/03/25 Research Highlight |
Xue Wang (Colorado School of Mines) | In Situ Surface and Gas Phase Diagnostics to Study the Etching of SiNx with HF Plasma |
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07/03/25 Research Highlight |
Willca Villafana (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) | Establishing criteria for the transition from kinetic to fluid modeling in hollow cathode analysis |
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07/17/25 Research Highlight |
Valery Godyak () | Measurement of discharge power, plasma parameters, and electromagnetic field in RF plasmas |
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07/31/25 Research Highlight |
Harish Radhakrishnan (Iowa State University) | Non-equilibrium plasma co-upcycling of waste plastics and CO2 for carbon-negative oleochemicals |
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07/31/25 Research Highlight |
Evan Litch (University of Michigan) | Consequences of low bias frequencies in inductively coupled plasmas on ion angular distributions for high aspect ratio plasma etching |
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08/14/25 Research Highlight |
Pingshan Luan (TEL Technology Center, America) | Fluorocarbon Plasma and Sustainable Replacements for Industrial Etching of Dielectric Materials |
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08/14/25 Research Highlight |
Lan-Yue Luo (Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing) | The quenching effect of oxygen addition on an argon capacitively coupled plasma: experimental and computational study of the argon metastable atom kinetics |
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08/28/25 Research Highlight |
Jimena Gorfinkiel (School of Physical Sciences, The Open University) | A helping environment: neighbour-assisted electron capture |
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09/11/25 Research Highlight |
Michael Campanell (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) | Two mechanisms limiting the emitted electron current from a cathode to an anode |
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09/11/25 Research Highlight |
Norleakvisoth Lim (University of California, Santa Barbara) | Plasmas Directly Excited in Liquid Hydrocarbons for H₂ and Unsaturated C₂ Hydrocarbon Production |
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09/25/25 Research Highlight |
Xingyi Shi (Applied Materials) | Three dimensional high-aspect-ratio silicon etching |
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09/25/25 Research Highlight |
Dmytro Sydorenko (University of Alberta) | Improved algorithm for a two-dimensional Darwin particle-in-cell code |
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10/09/25 Research Highlight |
Matthew Goeckner (The University of Texas at Dallas) | Accuracy of plasma simulations and methods to improve modeling of electron distribution functions |
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10/23/25 Research Highlight |
Alexandros Gerakis (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology) | Development of coherent methods to infer electron and ion plasma parameters |
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10/23/25 Research Highlight |
Chuanfei Dong (Boston University) | Integrating Kinetic Effects in Multi-Moment Fluid Modeling through Machine Learning |
