Sandia National Laboratories Plasma Research Facility (PRF)

This presentation will provide an update on the activities and structure of Sandia’s Low-Temperature Plasma Research Facility (PRF), funded by the DOE Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, General Plasma Science. The PRF is a resource available to anyone in the international Low-Temperature Plasma (LTP) community to access the advanced resources available at Sandia (not restricted to US collaborators). Capabilities are accessed through an annual proposal process which opens immediately following the GEC conference. Available resources include both experimental and modeling capabilities that represent many person-years and millions of dollars of development through DOE and other investments (some for decades). Examples of real-time diagnostics include Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF), Laser-Collision-Induced Fluorescence (LCIF), Photofragmentation LIF (PF-LIF), and Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometry (MBMS). Advanced modeling capabilities are also available, including state-of-the-art PIC-DSMC modeling tools along with access to Sandia’s high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities (many 10K’s of cores).



The presentation will include an overview of expertise and capabilities available, an explanation of the proposal process, and a summary of select recent projects.





This work used the capabilities of the SNL Plasma Research Facility, supported by DOE SC FES. SNL is managed and operated by NTESS under DOE NNSA contract DE-NA0003525. SAND2023-04477A