SHEAR (Sheath Role in Plasmas-Surface Interactions: Applications to Unipolar Arcs, Mirrors Cleaning and Plasma Heating)

Understanding plasma sheathing, a charged layer that settles in the vicinity of any material surface immersed in plasmas, is crucial to controlling plasma-surface interactions.
While the mechanisms of sheathing are well known in non-magnetized plasmas, including radio frequency (RF) environments, a universal model of sheathing in a tilted magnetic field and especially with an RF source does not yet exist.
The SHEAR project mainly aims at developing and validating such models, by comparing simulations and highly resolved measurements in dedicated devices.