This is a list of plasma physics topics.
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Ablation Abradable coating Abraham–Lorentz force Absorption band Accretion disk Active galactic nucleus Adiabatic invariant ADITYA (tokamak) Aeronomy Afterglow plasma Airglow Air plasma, Corona treatment, Atmospheric-pressure plasma treatment Ayaks, Novel "Magneto-plasmo-chemical engine" Alcator C-Mod Alfvén wave Ambipolar diffusion Aneutronic fusionG.S. Miller, E.E. Salpeter, and I. Wasserman, Deceleration of infalling plasma in the atmospheres of accreting neutron stars. I. Isothermal atmospheres, Astrophysical Journal, 314: 215–233, 1987 March 1. In one case, they report an increase in the stopping length by a factor of 12. Anisothermal plasma Anisotropy Antiproton Decelerator Appleton–Hartree equation Arcing horns Arc lamp Arc suppression ASDEX Upgrade, Axially Symmetric Divertor EXperiment Astron (fusion reactor) Astronomy Astrophysical plasma Astrophysical X-ray source Atmospheric dynamo Atmospheric escape Atmospheric pressure discharge Atmospheric-pressure plasma Atom Atomic emission spectroscopy Atomic physics Atomic-terrace low-angle shadowing Auger electron spectroscopy Aurora (astronomy)
B
Babcock Model Ball lightning Ball-pen probe Ballooning instability Baryon acoustic oscillations Beam-powered propulsion Beta (plasma physics) Birkeland current Blacklight Power Blazar Bohm diffusion Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem Boltzmann relation Bow shock Bremsstrahlung Bussard ramjet
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Capacitively coupled plasma Carbon nanotube metal matrix composites Cassini–Huygens, Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Cathode ray Cathodic arc deposition Ceramic discharge metal-halide lamp Charge carrier Charged-device model Charged particle Chemical plasma Chemical vapor deposition Chemical vapor deposition of diamond Chirikov criterion Chirped pulse amplification Chromatography detector Chromo–Weibel instability Classical-map hypernetted-chain method Cnoidal wave Colored-particle-in-cell Coilgun Cold plasma, Ozone generator Collisionality Colored-particle-in-cell Columbia Non-neutral Torus Comet tail Compact toroid Compressibility Compton–Getting effect Contact lithography Coupling (physics) Convection cell Cooling flow Corona Corona discharge Corona ring Coronal loop Coronal radiative losses Coronal seismology Cosmic microwave background radiation Cotton–Mouton effect Coulomb collision Coulomb explosion Columbia Non-neutral Torus Crackle tube Critical ionization velocity Crookes tube Current sheet Cutoff frequency Cyclotron radiation
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Debye length Debye sheath Deep reactive-ion etching Degenerate matter Degree of ionization DEMO, DEMOnstration Power Plant Dense plasma focus Dielectric barrier discharge Diffusion damping DIII-D (tokamak) Dimensional analysis Diocotron instability Direct-current discharge Directed-energy weapon Direct bonding distribution function Divertor Doppler broadening Doppler effect Double layer (plasma) Dual segmented Langmuir probe, Non-Maxwellian Features in Ionospheric Plasma Duoplasmatron Dusty plasma Dynamo theory
E
Earth's magnetic field Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) Ectons Eddington luminosity Edge-localized mode Ekman number Elastic collision Electrical breakdown Electrical conductor Electrical mobility Electrical resistance and conductance Electrical resistivity and conductivity Electrical treeing Electrically powered spacecraft propulsion Electric-field screening Electric arc Electric arc furnace, Plasma arc furnace Electric current Electric discharge Electric spark Electric Tokamak Electrothermal-chemical technology, uses plasma cartridge, Triple coaxial plasma igniter Electrodeless plasma excitation Electrodeless plasma thruster Electrodynamic tether, Flowing Plasma Effect Electrohydrodynamic thruster Electrolaser, Laser-Induced Plasma Channel Electromagnetic electron wave Electromagnetic field Electromagnetic pulse Electromagnetic spectrum Electron-cloud effect Electron Electron avalanche Electron beam ion trap Electron cyclotron resonance Electron density Electron energy loss spectroscopy Electron gun Electron microprobe Electron spiral toroid Electron temperature Electronvolt Electron wake Electrostatic discharge Electrostatic ion cyclotron wave Electrostatic ion thruster Electrosurgery Electrothermal instability Electroweak epoch Elemental analysis Elliptic flow Emission spectrum Energetic neutral atom Energy density Energy filtered transmission electron microscopy Evanescent wave Evershed effect Excimer lamp Excimer laser Extraordinary optical transmission Extreme ultraviolet Extreme ultraviolet lithography
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Failure analysis FalconSAT Faraday cup Faraday effect, Faraday rotation in the ionosphere Far-infrared laser Farley-Buneman instability Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer Ferritic nitrocarburizing, Plasma-assisted ferritic nitrocarburizing, plasma ion nitriding Ferrofluid Field line Field-reversed configuration Filament propagation Finite-difference time-domain method Fire Fisher's equation Fission fragment reactor Fission-fragment rocket, Dusty Plasma Based Fission Fragment Nuclear Reactor Flame plasma Flare spray Flashtube Flatness problem Flowing-afterglow mass spectrometry Fluid dynamics Fluorescent lamp Forbidden mechanism Force-free magnetic field Free-electron laser Free electron model F region, Appleton layer Frequency classification of plasmas Fusion energy gain factor Fusion power fusion torch fusor
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Galactic corona Galactic halo Gas Gas-filled tube Gas core reactor rocket Gas cracker, plasma cracking Gas Electron Multiplier Gaseous fission reactor Gaseous ionisation detectors Gas focusing Gasification, Plasma gasifier Geissler tube General Fusion Geomagnetic storm Geothermal Anywhere Glasser effect Glass frit bonding Glow discharge Glow-discharge optical emission spectroscopy (GDOES) Grad–Shafranov equation Granule (solar physics) Great Rift (astronomy) GreenSun Energy Guiding center Gunn–Peterson trough GYRO Gyrokinetic ElectroMagnetic Gyrokinetics Gyroradius Gyrotron
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Hadronization Hagedorn temperature, Transition to Quark-Gluon Plasma Hall effect Hall-effect thruster Hasegawa–Mima equation Heat shield Heat torch Helically Symmetric Experiment Helicon double-layer thruster Helicon (physics) Heliosphere Heliospheric current sheet Helium Helium line ratio Helmet streamer Hessdalen light High beta fusion reactor High-energy nuclear physics High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program High harmonic generation High-intensity discharge lamp High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering High voltage HiPER, High-Power laser Energy Research facility Hiss (electromagnetic), Plasmaspheric hiss Hollow cathode effect Hollow-cathode lamp Holtsmark distribution Homopolar generator Horizon problem Hydrogen Hydrogen sensor Hypernova Hypersonic speed Hypersonic wind tunnel Hypervelocity Hypertherm
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IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society IGNITOR IMAGE, Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, Radio Plasma Imager Impalefection Impulse generator Incoherent scatter Induction plasma technology Inductively coupled plasma Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry Inelastic mean free path inertial confinement fusion Inertial electrostatic confinement Inertial fusion power plant Instability Insulated-gate bipolar transistor Insulator (electrical) Interbol Intergalactic medium International Reference Ionosphere Interplanetary magnetic field Interplanetary medium Interplanetary scintillation Interstellar medium Interstellar nebula Interstellar travel Intracluster medium Io-Jupiter flux tube Ion Ionized-air glow Ion acoustic wave Ion beam Ion-beam shepherd Ion cyclotron resonance Ion gun Ion laser Ion optics Ion plating Ion source Ion wind Ionosphere Ionospheric heater Ionospheric propagation Isotope-ratio mass spectrometry, Multiple collector – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS) ITER, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
J Jellium, uniform electron gas, homogeneous electron gas Jet (particle physics) Jet quenching Joint European Torus
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Kennelly–Heaviside layer, E region Kinetics (physics) Kink instability Kirchhoff's circuit laws Kite applications, plasma kite Kosterlitz–Thouless transition KSTAR, Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research Kværner-process, Plasma burner, Plasma variation
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Lagrange point colonization Landau damping Langmuir probe Large Hadron Collider Large Helical Device Large Plasma Device Laser-hybrid welding Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy Laser-induced fluorescence Laser ablation Laser ablation synthesis in solution Laser plasma acceleration Lawson criterion Lerche–Newberger sum rule Le Sage's theory of gravitation Levitated dipole LIDAR Lightcraft Lightning LINUS (Fusion Experiment) List of hydrodynamic instabilities List of plasma physicists LOFAR, Low Frequency Array Longitudinal wave Lorentz force Low-energy electron diffraction Lower hybrid oscillation Low-pressure discharge Luminescent solar concentrator Lundquist number Luttinger liquid
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Madison Symmetric Torus MagBeam, also called Magnetized beamed plasma propulsion, plasma wind Magnetic bottle Magnetic braking Magnetic cloud Magnetic confinement fusion Magnetic diffusivity Magnetic field Magnetic field oscillating amplified thruster, Plasma Engine Magnetic helicity Magnetic mirror Magnetic Prandtl number Magnetic pressure Magnetic proton recoil neutron spectrometer Magnetic radiation reaction force Magnetic reconnection Magnetic Reynolds number Magnetic sail, Mini-magnetospheric plasma propulsion Magnetic tail Magnetic tension force Magnetic weapon Magnetization reversal by circularly polarized light Magnetized target fusion Magnetogravity wave Magnetohydrodynamic drive MHD generator Magnetohydrodynamics Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Magneto-optical trap Magnetopause Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster Magnetosheath Magnetosonic wave, also magnetoacoustic wave Magnetosphere Magnetosphere chronology Magnetosphere of Saturn, Sources and transport of plasma Magnetosphere particle motion Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Magnetotellurics MAGPIE, stands for Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments, Marx generator MARAUDER, acronym of Magnetically Accelerated Ring to Achieve Ultra-high Directed Energy and Radiation Marchywka Effect Marfa lights Many-body problem Mars Express Mass driver, or electromagnetic catapult Mass spectrometry Material point method Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution Maxwell's equations Mechanically Stimulated Gas Emission Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak Metallic bond Metallizing Metamaterial antenna Microplasma Microstructured optical arrays Microturbulence Microwave digestion Microwave discharge Microwave plasma-assisted CVD Microwave plasma Migma MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Moreton wave Multipactor effect
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Nanoflares Nanoparticle Nanoscale plasmonic motor Nanoshell National Compact Stellarator Experiment National Spherical Torus Experiment Navier–Stokes equations Negative index metamaterials Negative resistance Negative temperature Neon lighting Neon sign Neutral beam injection Neutron generator Neutron source Neutron star spin-up New Horizons, Plasma and high energy particle spectrometer suite (PAM) Nitrogen–phosphorus detector Nonequilibrium Gas and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory Non-line-of-sight propagation Non-thermal microwave effect Nonthermal plasma, Cold plasma