Intelligent Sensors for Plasma Measurements
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 68
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Interests: nuclear fusion; plasma diagnostics; control and data acquisition; plasma physics
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Dear Colleagues,
Plasma science and engineering is a multidisciplinary area encompassing some of the most exciting fundamental and applied research themes in today's scientific landscape, with an extraordinarily broad impact on science, technology, and industry. Although the mainstream areas of plasma research are readily identified as fusion (magnetic and inertial), laser–plasma interactions, and low-temperature plasma technologies, plasma science is often a key component of many other disciplines, including nanoscience, atomic and molecular physics, surface physics, biophysics, astrophysics, and space science.
Measuring plasma parameters, usually termed plasma diagnostics, is a key challenge in all these applications, both for understanding the basic principles and, in many cases, for optimizing and controlling processes. Plasma diagnostics are based on a wide variety of characteristic plasma phenomena, and although most of the techniques used are already well established, plasma diagnostics is still a very challenging and vivid discipline. On the one hand, there is a continuing effort to attain a better spatial and temporal resolution, reach higher accuracies, and measure with more spatial channels. On the other hand, diagnostic techniques based on more subtle physical processes (compared to those used in routine diagnostics) are continuously being developed, and new tools are being added (e.g., machine learning techniques). Furthermore, to obtain a better insight into the processes in the plasma, it is a prerequisite that plasma parameters are diagnosed simultaneously, as much as possible, with multi-channel diagnostics, preferably with temporal and spatial resolutions smaller than the typical time and length scales of the instabilities. Furthermore, in some areas, e.g., future fusion reactors, such as ITER and DEMO, there will be a need to measure a wide range of plasma parameters in extreme conditions of temperature, neutron and gamma fluxes while providing inputs to control systems with adequate reliability and long term stability, enabling us to reach and sustain high levels of fusion power in a stationary manner.
This Special Issue will cover the methods, instruments, and experimental techniques used to measure plasma properties, such as diagnostics for magnetic confinement fusion, beam plasmas, and inertial fusion, low-temperature and industrial plasmas, and basic and astrophysical plasmas.
Dr. Bruno Soares Gonçalves
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- intelligent sensors for plasma measurements
- nuclear instruments and methods for hot plasma diagnostics
- plasma diagnostics—charged-particle spectroscopy
- plasma diagnostics—interferometry, spectroscopy, and imaging
- plasma diagnostics—probes
- plasma generation (laser-produced, RF, X-ray-produced)
- plasma diagnostics—simulation
- plasma diagnostics—neutral and ion beams
- detector design and construction technologies and materials
- plasma diagnostics—instrumentation, control, and data acquisition
- neutron detectors (cold, thermal, fast neutrons)
- gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPGe, HgI, etc.)
- plasma diagnostics—high-speed photography
- data processing methods
- detector design and construction technologies and materials
- detector alignment and calibration methods
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