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In their two-part tutorial review published in Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Svetlana Starikovskaia, Victor Lafaurie, Jean-Baptiste Perrin-Terrin (EM2C), and Christophe Laux (EM2C) present a comprehensive overview of plasma-assisted combustion...

Iodine is an emerging alternative propellant for high-performance electric propulsion systems and has also been proposed as a novel feed gas for the dry etching of III-V semiconductor materials. An international team, including several researchers from...

By allowing plasmas to exchange their magnetic connectivity, the process of magnetic reconnection enables the sudden release of magnetic energy in the form of accelerated particles and fast, heated flows. For more than half a century, reconnection has...

The Sun constantly emits a stream of charged particles, known as solar wind. Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, experiences solar winds and storms more than 10 times more powerful than those experienced by Earth, which is located 1 astronomical unit...

Congratulations to Anatole Berger who successfully defended his PhD "On the use of moment methods for modeling low-temperature plasmas in the low and intermediate pressure regime" on December 2025. Summary : Low-temperature plasmas are used in many...

Hall-effect thrusters are used in satellites for orbit transfer and station-keeping. The LPP (Laboratory of Plasma Physics) has been conducting research in this field for over ten years and has recently focused on the instabilities observed at the plasma...

Congratulations to Dihya Sadi who successfully defended her PhD "Fundamental mechanisms of plasma-surface interaction : application to plasma-membrane coupling for CO 2 recycling" on December 12, 2025. Thesis committee: Mr Erik Johnson DR CNRS, LPICM...

Congratulations to Louis Saugé who successfully defended his PhD "Étude expérimentale sur les jets de plasma à pression atmosphérique : champs électriques, mécanismes de décharge et effets biologiques" on November 27, 2025. Summary : Atmospheric pressure...

Congratulations to Benjamin Labérie who successfully defended his PhD "Plasma froid à pression atmosphérique : Rôle du champ électrique sur la migration cellulaire et étude d’un jet diffusif sur les marqueurs de la cicatrisation" on November 25, 2025...

The first direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO–VIRGO collaboration [Abbott et al., 2016], made a century after Einstein’s prediction, has opened the door to probing events in the early universe, where many models anticipate the presence of...

The plasma camera is a new type of spectrometer developed at LPP with CNES support, designed for rapid measurement of the distribution function of charged particles in space. Gwendal Hénaff, who devoted his thesis to this innovative instrument with 3D...

On November 13, 2026, at 8:55 pm (UTC), the New Glenn 2 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral, Florida), carrying the two satellites of the ESCAPADE mission to Mars (PI: Rob Lillis, UC Berkeley). This spectacular launch, during...