Group: Transient Pulsed Plasmas and Complex Plasmas


Research areas:


- Detection of contaminants in liquid/solid/layers by various optics spectral 

- Development for new electrochemical/optical sensors detection; 

- Laser-plasma mass spectrometry; 

- Radiofrequency sputtering magnetron discharges for the generation of bioceramic thin layers

- New bulk layers deposition in low-pressure plasma for photovoltaics cells based on CdS/CdTe and WO3;

- Plasma chemistry processes in radio frequency plasmas: analyses by optical spectroscopy and mass spectrometry

- Transient discharges at atmospheric and low pressure for the generation of polymeric interface layers

- Transient discharges at atmospheric pressure for the generation of active species for material decontamination

- High-power laser interaction experiments with solid targets  to determine the spectral distribution of electrons and protons to simulate the spectra of electrons and protons in outer space; ionizing particle spectrum simulations using GEANT4;

- Experiments for generating electromagnetic pulses by pulsed or continuous discharges at atmospheric pressure, as well as by coupling discharges at atmospheric pressure-laser

- strongly correlated Coulomb-type systems, confined in ion traps (particles)

- mass spectroscopy, high-resolution laser spectroscopy, quantum engineering and metrology, fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and relativity theory using Paul-type traps

- optical clocks with lattice atoms or confined ions

- investigations of levitated aerosols and nanoparticles in electrodynamic balances


- use of RF traps for micropositioning of targets in acceleration experiments of electrically charged particles using PW class lasers