A Review of Emerging In Situ Methods to Decipher non-Thermal Plasma–Surface Interactions at Atmospheric Pressure

A comprehensive topical review has just been recently published in special issue of Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, focusing on emerging in situ and time-resolved diagnostic methods to study the interaction of non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasmas with liquid or solid targets [1]. This work highlights both the challenges and recent advances in observing plasma–surface interactions as they occur, in real time and under direct plasma exposure. Drawing on tools from plasma physics, chemistry, materials science, and fluid dynamics, the review presents a structured overview of diagnostic techniques, classified by target type, measurable parameters, and spatiotemporal resolution.
This article is the result of a collaboration between LPP (CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École polytechnique), LPICM (CNRS, École polytechnique), and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), which initiated and led the project.

If you are interested in learning more about the state of the art on this topic, you can find the article by clicking here, or contact Olivier Guaitella at LPP.

[1] Sobota, A., E. Garcia-Caurel, and O. Guaitella. "Diagnostic techniques for the interaction of non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasmas and targets." Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 58, no. 6 (2024): 063005 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ad94fd