Subject Area:
Expertise: Experimental Plasma Physics
Research and Teaching Interests
- RF plasmas (helicon wave mode, inductively and/or capacitively coupled)
- Plasma diagnostics (probe based; laser aided; imaging techniques)
- Plasma spectroscopy (passive; laser induced fluorescence; cavity enhanced, IR)
- Waves and instabilities; plasma turbulence and transport in magnetized plasmas
- Scrape-off-layer, edge and divertor physics of magnetically confined plasmas
- Impurity transport and entrainment in background plasma flows
- Plasma Material Interaction (PMI) studies; thermal effects on PFCs
- Plasma self-organization; zonal flow formation; vortex – shear flow interactions
- Plasma propulsion, space applications (thrusters; double layers; ion acceleration)
- Nonlinear dynamics and chaos (in plasmas; ecological/epidemic models etc.)
