Fields of Activity

ACCesS
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“Augsburg Comprehensive Cesium Setup“
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Inductively coupled plasma
- Investigations on cesium dynamics in negative hydrogen ion sources
- Investigations on the surface work function of materials in contact with low pressure low temperature plasmas
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CHARLIE
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“Concept Studies for Helicon Assisted RF Low Pressure Ion SourcEs"
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Inductively coupled plasma / helicon discharge
- Studies on reactor design and plasma generation
- Investigations on the power transfer efficiency and coupling mechanisms of rf driven plasmas

PlanICE
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“Planar Inductively Coupled Experiment“
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Inductively coupled plasma
- Fundamental research on hydrogen plasmas
- Quantitative vacuum-UV (VUV) spectroscopy in low pressure low temperature plasmas
- Development of diagnostic methods for low pressure discharges

Surfaguide
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Microwave-driven surface-wave discharge
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- Fundamental research on nitrogen-hydrogen plasmas between low pressure and atmospheric pressure
- Investigation of plasma-assisted catalytic processes for nitrogen fixation

HOMER
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“Homogeneous ECR plasma"
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Electron cyclotron resonance discharge
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- Investigations on production and extraction of negative hydrogen ions at?low work function surfaces
- Fundamental research on recombining molecular low pressure plasmas by optical emission spectroscopy

Atmospheric plasmoid experiment
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High voltage discharge above water surface at atmospheric pressure
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- Fundamental research on plasmoids
- Development of temporally, spacially and spectrally resolved diagnostic systems for dynamic atmospheric discharges