Research interests
Physics and chemistry of electrical discharges in reactive gases and their interaction with surfaces.
Development of novel diagnostic techniques for reactive plasmas : optical techniques for measuring reactive species densities and kinetics, electric fields, and electrical plasma measurements. Laser-induced fluorescence, Ion Flux Probes, cavity ring-down spectroscopy, broad-band absorption spectroscopy, microwave resonance techniques for electron density measurements.
Development of sensors for in-situ control of industrial plasma processes.
Physics of capacitively-coupled radiofrequency plasmas : tailored voltage waveform excitation for control of ion and electron fluxes and energy distributions.
Gas breakdown in RF fields.