1. Wave plasma brush: Synthesis and Outlooks
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Mazières, V, Pascaud, R, Stafford, L, Bonnet, P, Al Ibrahim, A, Chauvière, C, Liard, L, Dap, S, Clergereaux, R, Pascal, O, Groupe de Recherche en Electromagnétisme (LAPLACE-GRE), LAboratoire PLasma et Conversion d'Energie (LAPLACE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Université de Montréal (UdeM), CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France, Laboratoire de Mathématiques Blaise Pascal (LMBP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Groupe de Recherche Energétique, Plasmas et Hors Equilibre (LAPLACE-GREPHE), and Sciences et Ingénierie des Plasmas Réactifs et des Arcs (LAPLACE-ScIPRA)
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[SPI.PLASMA]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Plasmas - Abstract
International audience; The aim of this paper is to present the promising outlooks that lies ahead for the innovative plasma source we introduced recently, namely the "wave plasma brush". The idea of this source is to dynamically control the plasma location by changing the waveform of the transmitted signal to a multimode cavity. It is then the behavior of the waves inside the cavity that control the plasma location, hence the name of wave plasma brush. Since its introduction in 2019, we have produced three main papers, aimed at different scientific communities: applied physics, physics of plasma, signal processing and mathematical and numerical methods. An overview of these works is first presented in this paper. Then, the promising outlooks for this unusual plasma source are identified and classified into four domains: unhooking of the plasmas from the antennas in order to control their location anywhere in the cavity, plasma diagnostics, modelling of the problem, and potential applications.
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- 2021