List of plasma physics articles

This is a list of plasma physics topics.

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 [1]
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)

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

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

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
Doppler broadening
Doppler effect
Double layer (plasma)
Dual segmented Langmuir probe, Non-Maxwellian Features in Ionospheric Plasma
Duoplasmatron
Dusty plasma
Dynamo theory

Earth's magnetic field [2]
EAST, Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
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
Enhancement or quenching of QD, Q-wire and QW radiations
Evanescent wave
Evershed effect
Excimer lamp
Excimer laser
Extraordinary optical transmission
Extreme ultraviolet
Extreme ultraviolet lithography

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

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

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

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

Jellium, uniform electron gas, homogeneous electron gas
Jet (particle physics)
Jet quenching
Joint European Torus

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

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

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

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

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

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-machine
QCD matter [3]
Quadrupole ion trap
Quantum cascade laser
Quark–gluon plasma
Quarkonium
Quasar
Quasiparticle

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

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 [4]
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

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

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

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

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

Y
Z

Zakharov system [5]
Zero-point energy
ZETA (fusion reactor)
Zonal and poloidal
Zonal flow (plasma)
Z Pulsed Power Facility