Princeton Collaborative Low Temperature Plasma Research Facility (PCRF)

Low-temperature plasmas (LTPs) have a wide range of applications in industry, medicine, aerospace, and sustainability. In 2019, the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences established Princeton Collaborative Low Temperature Plasma Research Facility (PCRF, http://pcrf.pppl.gov) at the US DOE Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). The PCRF provides the plasma science community and industry access to state-of-the-art research capabilities, including advanced diagnostics, plasma sources and computational codes, theory support, and expertise for comprehensive characterization of LTP properties with the goal of advancing methods of predictive control of LTP. Since the beginning of the facility operation, 64 collaborative users from the plasma and other scientific communities, including from universities, national labs, and industry, were awarded with runtime at the PCRF. These user projects cover: i) plasma-liquid and plasma-solid interactions, ii) plasma transport, iii) collective phenomena in LTP, iv) use of LTP in modern applications including but not limited to plasma processing and synthesis of materials; plasma medicine; plasma-assisted combustion and catalysis; and aerospace. In this presentation, we will discuss PCRF research capabilities and opportunities for collaboration.