Lab Publications
A.
Plasma Processing
Laser-Induced Fluorescence Ion Diagnostics in Light of Plasma
Processing, R. McWilliams, E.A. Hudson, and J.P. Booth, Thin Solid Films,
accepted for publication.
Diode Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Metastable Argon Ions
in Magnetized Inductively Coupled Plasma, S. Jun, H.Y. Chang, and R.
McWilliams, Physics of Plasmas, accepted for publication.
Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements for Plasma Processing, R.
McWilliams, H. Boehmer, D. Edrich, W. Heidbrink, L. Zhao, and D. Zimmerman,
Thin Solid Films 506-507, p.665 (2006).
Two-Dimensional Ion Velocity Distribution Functions in Inductively
Coupled Argon Plasma, D. Zimmerman, R. McWilliams, and D. Edrich, Plasma
Sources Science & Technology, 14, 581 (2005).
Operation of a 0.2-1.1 keV Ion Source Within a Magnetized Laboratory
Plasma, H. Boehmer, D. Edrich, W.W. Heidbrink, D. Leneman, R. McWilliams, and
L. Zhao, Review of Scientific Instruments 75, 1013 (2004).
Laser-Induced Fluorescence
Diagnosis of Plasma Processing Sources, R. McWilliams and D. Edrich, Thin Solid
Films 435, 1 (2003).
B. Ion Transport
Determination
of Plasma Flow Velocity by Mach Probe and Triple Probe with Correction by
Laser-Induced Fluorescence in Unmagnetized Plasmas, Y.S. Choi, H.J. Woo, M.Y. Lee, D. Zimmerman, and R.
McWilliams, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, accepted.
Sheared Zonal Flow ExB Drifts Predicted from Emissive Probes and
Measured by Laser-Induced Fluorescence, R. McWilliams and D. Edrich,
Contributions to Plasma Physics, accepted.
Effect of Supersonic Ion Beams on the Triple Probe Measurement, H.J.
Woo, K.S. Chung, Y.S. Choi, M.J. Lee, D. Zimmerman, and R. McWilliams,
Contributions to Plasma Physics, accepted.
Ion Flow and Sheath Physics Studies in Multiple Ion Species Plasmas
Using Diode Laser Based Laser-Induced Fluorescence, G.D. Severn, Xu Wang,
Eunsuk Ko, N. Hershkowitz, M.M. Turner, and R. McWilliams, Thin Solid Films
506-507, p.674 (2006).
Two-Dimensional Ion Velocity Distribution Functions in Inductively
Coupled Argon Plasma, D. Zimmerman, R. McWilliams, and D. Edrich, Plasma
Sources Science & Technology, 14, 581 (2005).
Measurements of Classical Transport of Fast Ions, L. Zhao, W.W.
Heidbrink, H. Boehmer, R. McWilliams, D. Leneman, and S. Vincena, Physics of
Plasmas 12, 052108 (2005).
Operation of a 0.2-1.1 keV Ion Source Within a Magnetized Laboratory
Plasma, H. Boehmer, D. Edrich, W.W. Heidbrink, D. Leneman, R. McWilliams, and
L. Zhao, Review of Scientific Instruments 75, 1013 (2004).
Argon Ion Laser-Induced Fluorescence with Diode Lasers; G.D. Severn,
D.A. Edrich, and R. McWilliams; Review of Scientific Instruments, v. 69, p. 10-15,
(1998).
Ion
Acceleration and Anomalous Transport in the Near Wake of a Plasma Limiter, D.P. Sheehan, J. Bowles, and R. McWilliams,
Phys. Plasmas 4, 3177 (1997).
Single
Beam Laser Induced Fluorescence Technique for Plasma Transport Measurements (with D. Edrich and N. Wolf), Rev. Sci.
Instrum. 67(8), 2812 (1996).
Direct Measurement of Velocity Space
Transport in a Plasma; J. Bowles, R. McWilliams, and N. Rynn; Physics of
Plasmas v. 1, p. 3814-3825 (1994).
Velocity
Space Diffusion in Q-Machine Plasmas (with J. Bowles and N. Rynn), IEEE Trans. on Plasma Science 20(6), 651
(1992).
Direct
Measurement of Velocity-Space Transport in a Fully Ionized Plasma (with J. Bowles and N. Rynn), Phys. Rev.
Lett. 68(8), 1144 (1992).
A
Confinement Scaling Law,
Comments on Plasma Phys. and Cont. Fusion 14(1), 27 (1991).
The Transport of Ions in a Turbulent Plasma;
R. McWilliams, M. K. Okubo, and N. S. Wolf; Physics of Fluids B v. 2, p.
523-529, (1990).
Laser-Aided
Measurement of Plasma Transport (with M. Okubo), Invited Talk, 3rd International Symposium on
Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics, Los Angeles, 28-30 October 1987.
The Transport of Test Ions in a Quiet
Plasma; R. McWilliams and M. Okubo, Physics of Fluids 30, p. 2849-2854, (1987).
Cross-Field
Ion Transport and Heating Due to Parametric Decay of Lower Hybrid Waves (with D. N. Hill, N. S. Wolf, and N. Rynn),
Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 836 (1983).
B. Laser Development
Laser-Induced Fluorescence
Ion Diagnostics in Light of Plasma Processing, R. McWilliams, E.A. Hudson, and
J.P. Booth, Thin Solid Films, accepted for publication.
Diode Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Metastable Argon Ions
in Magnetized Inductively Coupled Plasma, S. Jun, H.Y. Chang, and R.
McWilliams, Physics of Plasmas, accepted for publication.
A Newly Calibrated Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) System for Ar Ions
with a Single Tunable Diode Laser, H.J Woo, K.S. Chung, T. Lho, R. McWilliams,
Journal of the Korean Physical Society 48, 260 (2006).
Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements for Plasma Processing, R.
McWilliams, H. Boehmer, D. Edrich, W. Heidbrink, L. Zhao, and D. Zimmerman,
Thin Solid Films 506-507, p.665 (2006).
Two-Dimensional Ion Velocity Distribution Functions in Inductively
Coupled Argon Plasma, D. Zimmerman, R. McWilliams, and D. Edrich, Plasma
Sources Science & Technology, 14, 581 (2005).
Argon Ion
Laser-Induced Fluorescence with Diode Lasers, G.D. Severn, D.A. Edrich, and R. McWilliams, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 69,
10 (1998).
Single
Beam Laser Induced Fluorescence Technique for Plasma Transport Measurements (with D. Edrich and N. Wolf), Rev. Sci.
Instrum. 67(8), 2812 (1996).
Improved
optical tomography device; M. Zintl and
R. McWilliams; Review of Scientific Instruments, v. 65, p. 2574-2579, (1994).
Laser-Aided
Measurements of Plasma Transport (with D. Sheehan), Invited Talk, Rev. Sci Instrum. 59, 1536 (1988).
Measurement
of multidimensional ion velocity distributions by optical tomography; R. Koslover and R. McWilliams; Review of
Scientific Instruments, v. 57, p. 2441-2448, (1986).
C. Ion Conics/Magnetospheric Simulations
Transverse Ion Acceleration and Ion Conic Formation
in a Divergent-Field Laboratory Plasma, M. Zintl, R. McWilliams, and N. Wolf),
Phys. Plasmas 2(12), 4432-4441 (1995).
Laboratory
Simulations of Suprauroral Mechanisms Leading to Perpendicular Ion Heating
& Conic Formation (with
D. P. Sheehan and R. Koslover), J. Geophys. Res. 96(A8), 14107 (1991).
Laboratory
Simulation of Magnetospheric Ion Transport, in Physics of Space Plasmas (1989), Invited Talk, Ed. T. Chang, G. B.
Crew, and J. R. Jasperse, p. 301, Scientific Publishers, Inc. (1990).
Laboratory Observation of Ion Conics Using
Velocity-Space Tomography of a Plasma,
R. McWilliams and R. Koslover, Physical Review Letters, v. 58, p. 37-40
(1987).
Laboratory
Simulation of Ion Acceleration in the Presence of Lower Hybrid Waves (with H. Boehmer, R. Koslover, and N. Rynn),
AGU Monograph on Ion Acceleration in the Magnetosphere and Ionosphere, 1986,
Tom Chang, Editor, p. 245.
D. Wave Propagation and Current Drive
Fast and
Slow Waves Launched from a Fast-Wave Waveguide Array (with D. Edrich,
N. S. Wolf and M. Brusati), Nucl. Fusion 32(4), 687 (1992).
Fast-Wave
Current Drive Above the Slow-Wave Density Limit (with D. P. Sheehan, N. S. Wolf and D.
Edrich), Phys. Rev. Lett. 64(11), 1258 (1990).
Radio
Frequency Power in Plasmas,
Editor Roger McWilliams, American Institute of Physics, 1989.
Fast Wave
Dispersion, Damping, and Electron Current Drive in the Irvine Torus (with R. C. Platt), Applications of Radio
Frequency Power to Plasmas, Kissimmee, Florida, Ed. S. Bernabei and R. W.
Motley, American Institute of Physics, (1987).
Excitation
of Fast Waves Near the Mean Gyrofrequency (with R. C. Platt), Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 2276 (1986).
Electrostatic
Ion Cyclotron Instability Near Threshold (with M.K. Okubo and N. S. Wolf), Phys. of Fluids 29, 3031 (1986).
Fast-Wave
Current Drive in the Irvine Torus (with R. C. Platt), Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 835 (1986).
Conference
Review of Fourth International Symposium on Heating in Toroidal Plasmas, Nuclear Technology/Fusion, January 1986.
Ion
Heating Due to Modulated Parametric Decay (with M. Okubo, R. Platt, D. Sheehan and N. S. Wolf), Physics Letts.
108A, 252 (1985).
Coupling
to Fast Waves near the Lower Hybrid Frequency (with Y. Mok), Invited Paper, Nuclear
Technology/Fusion 7, 283 (1985).
The
Production of Highly Unidirectional Lower Hybrid Waves (with M. Okubo, R. C. Platt, and D. P.
Sheehan), Physics of Fluids 28, 11 (1985).
Current
Ramp-Up and Plasma Formation in the PLT Tokamak by Lower Hybrid Waves (with T. K. Chu, et al), Fourth
International Symposium on Heating of Toroidal Plasmas, 21 March 1984, Rome,
Italy.
Formation
of a 100-kA Tokamak Discharge in the Princeton Large Torus by Lower Hybrid
Waves; F. Jobes, J. Stevens, R. Bell, S. Bernabei, A. Cavallo, T.K. Chu, S.
Cohen, B. Denne, P. Efthimion, E. Hinnov, W. Hooke, E. Mazzucato, R.
McWilliams, R. Motley, S. Suckewer, G. Taylor, J. Timberlake, S. von Goeler,
and R. Wilson; Physical Review Letters, v. 52, p. 1005-1008 (1984).
Coupling
to the Fast Wave Via a Phased Waveguide Array (with L. Olson, J. Glanz, and R. W. Motley),
Nucl. Fusion 24 (8), 1085 (1984).
Nonlocal
Plasma Edge Density Reduction Due to Lower Hybrid Waves (with N. W. Wolf), Phys. Rev. A 25, 1247
(1982).
Currents Generated by Lower Hybrid Waves; R.
McWilliams and R. W. Motley, Physics of Fluids v. 24, p. 2022-2034, (1981).
Lower-Hybrid
Heating and Current Drive in Tokamaks and Related Experiments (with M. Porkolab, J. J. Schuss, T. Takase,
S. Knowlton, S. C. Luckhardt, R. E. Slusher, C. M. Surko, N. Fisch, W. M.
Hooke, C. Karney, R. Motley, M. Ono, F. Perkins, T. H. Stix, E. Valeo, R.
Wilson and K. L. Wong), 8th Int. Conf. on Plasma Phys. and Controlled Nucl.
Res., Brusssels, 1980.
Steady-state
currents driven by collisionally damped lower-hybrid waves; R. McWilliams, R., E.J. Valeo, R.W. Motley, W.M. Hooke, and L.
Olson; Physical Review Letters, v. 44, p. 245-248, (1980).
Penetration
of Slow Waves into an Overdense Plasma (with R. W. Motley, S. Bernabei, W. M. Hooke, and L. Olson ), Plasma
Physics 21, 567 (1979).
E. Other Publications
Adjustable
Levels of Strong Turbulence in a Positive/Negative Ion Plasma (with D. P. Sheehan and N. Rynn), Phys.
Fluids B 5(5), 1523 (1993).
Simple
Overdense RF Plasma Source
(with D. Edrich, R. C. Platt, and D. P. Sheehan), Rev. Sci. Instrum. 61, 3460
(1990).
Experimental
Measurements of Phase Space
(with D. Sheehan), in The Physics of Phase Space, Ed. Y. S. Kim and W. W.
Zachary, Springer Verlag, (1987).
Experimental
Measurements of Phase Space (with
D. Sheehan), Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 2485 (1986).