Princeton Collaborative Research Facility in Low Temperature Plasma

The Princeton Collaborative Research Facility in Low Temperature Plasma (PCRF) is a user-oriented platform jointly operated by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University (PU), designed to advance low temperature plasma (LTP) science in support of energy, environment, and advanced manufacturing applications. Funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences, PCRF provides open access to state-of-the-art experimental systems, advanced diagnostics, modeling tools, and expertise for researchers across academia, industry, and national laboratories. PCRF capabilities and expertise are the result of years of productive internal collaborations between LTP laboratories at PPPL and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department of PU on a wide range of projects. This poster presents an overview of the PCRF capabilities highlighting current advancements. It includes plasma systems including magnetized and non-magnetized plasma sources operating in a wide range of frequencies, from dc to microwave and pulsed, and pressures from high vacuum to atmospheric pressure, advanced in situ ns and ps laser diagnostic techniques for plasma-solid and plasma-liquid interfaces, 2D and 3D particle-in-cell codes and molecular dynamics modeling, along with in-house expertise focused on plasma-liquid and plasma-solid interactions, collective phenomena in LTP, and the use of LTP in material synthesis and processing, biological/medical/agricultural, and aerospace applications. PCRF invites new users to propose experiments that leverage its unique infrastructure to tackle scientific and technological challenges in low temperature plasma science. Contact and proposal submission details will be provided.

PCRF gratefully acknowledges the technical assistance of T. Bennett and A. Merzhevski.

Princeton Collaborative Research Facility is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-09CH11466.