# List of plasma physics articles

This is a list of plasma physics topics.
* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* 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
* 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)

## B

* 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

## C

* 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

## D

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

## E

* Earth's magnetic field
* Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST)
* 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
* Evanescent wave
* Evershed effect
* Excimer lamp
* Excimer laser
* Extraordinary optical transmission
* Extreme ultraviolet
* Extreme ultraviolet lithography

## F

* 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

## G

* 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

## H

* 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

## I

* 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

## J

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

## K

* 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

## L

* 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

## M

* 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

## N

* 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

## O

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

## P

* 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

* Q-machine
* QCD matter
* Quadrupole ion trap
* Quantum cascade laser
* Quark–gluon plasma
* Quarkonium
* Quasar
* Quasiparticle

## R

* 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

## S

* 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
* 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
* Solar wind turbulence
* 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

## T

* 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

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

## V

* 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

## W

* 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

## X

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

## Z

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