LPS Colloquium: Yevgeny Raitses (PPPL)
How advanced plasma science will enable next-generation microelectronics manufacturing
Plasma is already essential to most of the processes used to make computer chips and memory. But the materials and processes must change as more of the semiconductor industry strives to mass-produce devices with features that measure less than a nanometer. This colloquium will discuss joint research from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Princeton University to refine the use of plasma to craft 2D materials into 3D arrangements that are perfect down to the atom. The efforts are supported by CHIPs and Science Acts. This talk will cover new ways to predict and control plasma processing using advanced plasma reactors and laser-based diagnostics. It will also walk through an example of how an electron-beam-generated plasma can gently process sensitive materials, including 2D materials and diamond.
Student Q&A: 2:15‑3:00 p.m. • Reception: 3:45-4:15 p.m.
Bio:
Yevgeny Raitses is the Managing Principal Research Physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He is an expert in experimental plasma physics. He has an extensive publication record with more than 200 publications on physics of plasma thrusters, plasma-surface interactions, plasma-based synthesis and processing of nanomaterials, cross-field discharges, and plasma diagnostics. Raitses earned a doctoral degree in aerospace from Technion—Israel Institute of Technology in 1997. He was elected an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauts in 2009 and a fellow of the American Physical Society the following year. Among many honors, Raitses, along with PPPL physicist Igor Kaganovich, received PPPL’s Kaul Foundation Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and Technology Development in 2019.
