Plasma (physics)

:This article is about plasma in the sense of an ionized gas. For other uses of the term, such as blood plasma, see plasma (disambiguation).

Fields of active research

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• Plasma theory
• Plasma equilibria and stability
• Plasma interactions with waves and beams
• Guiding center
• adiabatic invariant
• Debye sheath
• Coulomb collision
• Plasmas in nature
• The Earth's ionosphere
• Space plasmas, e.g. Earth's plasmasphere (an inner portion of the magnetosphere dense with plasma)
• plasma cosmology
• Plasma sources
• Plasma diagnostics
• Thomson scattering
• Langmuir probe
• Spectroscopy
• Interferometry
• Ionospheric heating
• Incoherent scatter radar
• Plasma applications
• Fusion power
• Magnetic fusion energy (MFE) -- tokamak, stellarator, reversed field pinch, magnetic mirror, dense plasma focus
• Inertial fusion energy (IFE) (also Inertial confinement fusion - ICF)
• Plasma-based weaponry
• Industrial plasmas
• plasma chemistry
• plasma processing
• plasma display