List of plasma physics articles

This is a list of plasma physics topics.

A

 * 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 fusion
 * 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

C

 * 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

D

 * 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

F

 * 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

G

 * 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

H

 * 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

I

 * 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

K

 * 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

L

 * 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

M

 * 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

N

 * 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
 * Nuclear fusion, Bremsstrahlung losses in quasineutral, isotropic plasmas, deuterium plasma
 * Nuclear pulse propulsion
 * Nuclear pumped laser
 * Numerical diffusion
 * Numerical resistivity

O

 * Ohmic contact
 * Onset of deconfinement
 * Optode
 * Optoelectric nuclear battery
 * Orbitrap
 * Outer space

P

 * Particle-in-cell
 * Particle accelerator
 * Paschen's law
 * Peek's law
 * Pegasus Toroidal Experiment
 * Penning mixture
 * Penrose criterion
 * Perhapsatron
 * Phased plasma gun
 * Photon
 * Photonic metamaterial
 * Photonics
 * Physical cosmology
 * Physical vapor deposition
 * Piezoelectric direct discharge plasma
 * Pinch (plasma physics)
 * Planetary nebula
 * Planetary nebula luminosity function
 * Plasma-desorption mass spectrometry
 * Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition
 * Plasma-immersion ion implantation
 * Plasma-powered cannon
 * Plasma (physics)
 * Plasma acceleration
 * Plasma Acoustic Shield System
 * Plasma activated bonding
 * Plasma activation
 * Plasma actuator
 * Plasma antenna
 * Plasma arc waste disposal, Incineration
 * Plasma arc welding
 * Plasma channel
 * Plasma chemistry
 * Plasma cleaning
 * Plasma Contactor
 * Plasma containment
 * Plasma conversion
 * Plasma cosmology, ambiplasma
 * Plasma cutting, Plasma gouging
 * Plasma deep drilling technology
 * Plasma diagnostics, Self Excited Electron Plasma Resonance Spectroscopy (SEERS)
 * Plasma display
 * Plasma effect
 * Plasma electrolytic oxidation
 * Plasma etcher
 * Plasma etching
 * Plasma frequency
 * Plasma functionalization
 * Plasma gasification commercialization
 * Plasma globe
 * Plasma lamp
 * Plasma medicine
 * Plasma modeling
 * Plasma nitriding
 * Plasma oscillation
 * Plasma parameter
 * Plasma parameters
 * Plasma pencil
 * Plasma polymerization
 * Plasma processing
 * Plasma propulsion engine
 * Plasma Pyrolysis Waste Treatment and Disposal
 * Plasma receiver
 * Plasma scaling
 * Plasma shaping
 * Plasma sheet
 * Plasma shield, Plasma window
 * Plasma sound source
 * Plasma source
 * Plasma speaker
 * Plasma spray
 * Plasma spraying, Thermal spraying, Surface finishing
 * Plasma stability
 * Plasma stealth
 * Plasma torch
 * Plasma transferred wire arc thermal spraying
 * Plasma valve
 * Plasma weapon
 * Plasma weapon (fiction)
 * Plasma window, Force field
 * Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory
 * Plasmaphone
 * Plasmapper
 * Plasmaron
 * Plasmasphere
 * Plasmoid
 * Plasmon
 * Plasmonic cover, Theories of cloaking
 * Plasmonic laser, Nanolaser
 * Plasmonic metamaterials
 * Plasmonic nanolithography
 * Plasmonic Nanoparticles
 * Plasmonic solar cell
 * Polarization density
 * Polarization ripples
 * Polar (satellite)
 * Polymeric surfaces
 * Polywell
 * Ponderomotive force
 * Princeton field-reversed configuration experiment
 * Propulsive Fluid Accumulator, nuclear-powered magnetohydrodynamic electromagnetic plasma thruster
 * Proton beam
 * Pseudospark switch
 * Pulsed Energy Projectile
 * Pulsed laser deposition, Dynamic of the plasma
 * Pulsed plasma thruster, also Plasma Jet Engines

Q

 * Q-machine
 * QCD matter
 * Quadrupole ion trap
 * Quantum cascade laser
 * Quark–gluon plasma
 * Quarkonium
 * Quasar
 * Quasiparticle

R

 * Radiation
 * Radiation damage
 * Radical polymerization
 * Radioactive waste
 * Radio atmospheric
 * Radio galaxy
 * Radio halo
 * Radio relics
 * Railgun
 * Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX)
 * Random phase approximation
 * Ray tracing (physics)
 * Reactive-ion etching
 * Reaction engine
 * Rectifier, Plasma type
 * Refractive index
 * Reionization
 * Relativistic beaming
 * Relativistic jet
 * Relativistic particle
 * Relativistic plasma
 * Relativistic similarity parameter
 * Remote plasma-enhanced CVD
 * Resistive ballooning mode
 * Resolved sideband cooling
 * Resonant magnetic perturbations
 * Resonator mode
 * Reversed field pinch
 * Richtmyer–Meshkov instability
 * Riggatron
 * Ring current
 * Rocket engine nozzle
 * Runaway breakdown
 * Rydberg atom
 * Rydberg matter

S

 * Safety factor (plasma physics)
 * Saha ionization equation
 * Sceptre (fusion reactor)
 * Scramjet
 * Screened Poisson equation
 * SEAgel, Safe Emulsion Agar gel
 * Selected-ion flow-tube mass spectrometry
 * Self-focusing
 * Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe
 * Shielding gas
 * Shiva laser
 * Shiva Star
 * Shock diamond
 * Shocks and discontinuities (magnetohydrodynamics)
 * Shock wave, Oblique shock
 * Skin effect
 * Skip zone
 * Sky brightness
 * Skywave
 * Slapper detonator
 * Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak
 * Solar cycle, Cosmic ray flux
 * Solar flare
 * Solar Orbiter, Radio and Plasma Wave analyser
 * Solar prominence
 * Solar transition region
 * Solar wind
 * Solenoid
 * Solution precursor plasma spray, Plasma plume
 * Sonoluminescence
 * South Atlantic Anomaly
 * Southern Hemisphere Auroral Radar Experiment
 * Space physics
 * Spacequake
 * Space Shuttle
 * Space Shuttle thermal protection system
 * Space tether missions
 * Spark-gap transmitter
 * Spark plasma sintering
 * Spaser
 * Spectral imaging
 * Spectral line
 * Spherical tokamak
 * Spheromak
 * Spinplasmonics
 * Spontaneous emission
 * Spreeta
 * Sprite (lightning)
 * Sputter cleaning
 * Sputter deposition
 * Sputtering
 * SSIES, Special Sensors-Ions, Electrons, and Scintillation thermal plasma analysis package
 * SST-1 (tokamak), Steady State Tokamak
 * Star
 * Star lifting
 * State of matter
 * Static forces and virtual-particle exchange
 * Stellarator
 * Stellar-wind bubble
 * St. Elmo's fire
 * Strahl (astronomy)
 * Strangeness production
 * Strontium vapor laser
 * Structure formation
 * Sudden ionospheric disturbance
 * Sun
 * SUNIST, Sino-UNIted Spherical Tokamak, Alfven wave current drive experiments in spherical tokamak plasmas
 * Superlens, Plasmon-assisted microscopy
 * Supernova
 * Supernova remnants
 * Sura Ionospheric Heating Facility
 * Surface-wave-sustained mode
 * Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
 * Surface plasmon
 * Surface plasmon polaritons
 * Surface plasmon resonance
 * Suspension plasma spray
 * Synchrotron light source

T

 * Taylor state
 * Teller–Ulam design, Foam plasma pressure
 * Tesla coil
 * Test particle, in plasma physics or electrodynamics
 * Thermal barrier coating
 * Thermalisation
 * Thermionic converter
 * Thermodynamic temperature
 * Thomson scattering
 * Thunder
 * Tokamak
 * Tokamak à configuration variable
 * Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor
 * Toroidal ring model
 * Townsend discharge
 * Townsend (unit)
 * Transformation optics
 * Transmission medium
 * Trisops, Force Free Plasma Vortices
 * Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy
 * Tweeter, Plasma or Ion tweeter
 * Two-dimensional guiding-center plasma
 * Two-dimensional point vortex gas
 * Two-stream instability

U

 * U-HID, Ultra High Intensity Discharge
 * UMIST linear system
 * Undulator
 * Upper hybrid oscillation
 * Upper-atmospheric lightning

V

 * Vacuum arc, thermionic vacuum arc generates a pure metal and ceramic vapour plasma
 * Van Allen radiation belt
 * Vapor–liquid–solid method
 * Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket
 * Vector inversion generator
 * Versatile Toroidal Facility
 * Violet wand
 * Virial theorem
 * Vlasov equation
 * Volatilisation
 * VORPAL, Versatile Object-oriented Relativistic Plasma Analysis with Lasers
 * Voyager program, Plasma Wave Subsystem

W

 * Warm dense matter
 * Wave equation
 * Waves in plasmas
 * Wave turbulence
 * Weibel instability
 * Wendelstein 7-X
 * Wiggler (synchrotron)
 * WIND (spacecraft)
 * Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle
 * Wireless energy transfer
 * Wouthuysen-Field coupling

X

 * XANES, X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure
 * Xenon arc lamp
 * X-ray transient
 * X-ray astronomy
 * X-shaped radio galaxy

Z

 * Zakharov system
 * Zero-point energy
 * ZETA (fusion reactor)
 * Zonal and poloidal
 * Zonal flow (plasma)
 * Z Pulsed Power Facility