Nanoparticle formation and dynamics in laboratory hydrocarbon plasmas

Maxime Mikikian (1) , Erik von Wahl (1, 2) , Thomas Lecas (1) , Safa Labidi (1) , Titaïna Gibert (1) , Holger Kersten (2) , Isabelle Géraud-Grenier (1) , Véronique Massereau-Guilbaud (1)

1 GREMI - Groupe de recherches sur l'énergétique des milieux ionisés
2 IEAP - Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik [Kiel]

Nanoparticles can easily be grown in typical low-pressure laboratory plasmas containing hydrocarbon precursors coming from injected gases or sputtered films. In this presentation, the formation and dynamics of dense nanoparticle clouds are studied, in particular the interaction between the charged nanoparticles and the plasma that leads to complex nanoparticle cloud structures and to low frequency instabilities.

Mots clés: Dusty plasmas; Complex plasmas; Nanoparticles; Hydrocarbon; Sputtering; Instabilities; Nanoparticle synthesis

Domaines: Plasmas; Physique des plasmas [physics.plasm-ph]

Maxime Mikikian, Erik von Wahl, Thomas Lecas, Safa Labidi, Titaïna Gibert, et al.. Nanoparticle formation and dynamics in laboratory hydrocarbon plasmas. From the NanoWorld to StarDust, NW2SD International Conference, Jul 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨hal-02196893⟩