COST Jet - reference plasma source for fundamental plasma science

Publications

2025
      • María J Herrera Quesada, Sebastian Pfaff, Jordyn Polito, Grayson Gall, Mark J Kushner, Jonathan H Frank and Katharina Stapelmann
        'Two-dimensional mapping of absolute OH densities in an atmospheric pressure plasma effluent via planar laser-induced fluorescence: effects of He/H2O and He/O2 mixtures in N2 and air, with and without solid targets        '
        J. Phys. D, 58 (2025) 175205
2024
      • David A. Schulenberg · Máté Vass · Maximilian Klich · Zoltán Donkó ·
        Jeldrik Klotz · Nikita Bibinov · Thomas Mussenbrock · Julian Schulze
        'Mode Transition Induced by Gas Heating Along the Discharge Channel in Capacitively Coupled Atmospheric Pressure Micro Plasma Jets'
        Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, 32 (2024) 055003
      • Máté Vass · David Schulenberg · Zoltán Donkó · Ihor Korolov · Peter Hartmann · Julian Schulze and Thomas Mussenbrock
        'A new 2D fluid-MC hybrid approach for simulating nonequilibrium atmospheric pressure plasmas: density distribution of atomic oxygen in radio-frequency plasma jets in He/O2 mixtures        '
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol., 33 (2024) 015012

      • Julien Bissonnette-Dulude, Pepijn Heirman, Sylvain Coulombe, Annemie Bogaerts, Thomas Gervais and Stephan Reuter
        'Coupling the COST reference plasma jet to a microfluidic device: a computational study        '
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol., 33 (2024) 015001

      • S. Chur, L. Kulik, V. Schulz-von der Gathen, M. Böke, J. Golda
        Self-organising sub-µm surface structures stimulated by microplasma generated reactive species and short-pulsed laser irradiation Laser-Plasma-Interaction
        ACS Omega 2024, 9, 27, 29234–29243
2023
      • Julien Bissonnette-Dulude, Sylvain Coulombe, Thomas Gervais and Stephan Reuter
        ''Coupling the COST reference plasma jet to a microfluidic device: a new diagnostic tool for plasma-liquid interactions'
        Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 32 (2023) 055003

      • Yue Liu, Máté Vass, Gerrit Hübner, David Schulenberg, Torben Hemke, Lena Bischoff, Sascha Chur, David Steuer, Judith Golda, Marc Böke, Julian Schulze, Ihor Korolov and Thomas Mussenbrock
        'Local enhancement of electron heating and neutral species generation in radio-frequency micro-atmospheric pressure plasma jets: the effects of  structured electrode topologies'
        Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 32 (2022) 025012
2022
      • Hübner, G., Bischoff, L., Korolov, I., Donkó, Z., Leimkühler, M., Liu, Y., Böke, M., Schulz-von der Gathen, V., Mussenbrock, T., & Schulze, J.
        'The effects of the driving frequencies on micro atmospheric pressure He/N2 plasma jets driven by tailored voltage waveforms'
        Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 55 (2022) 095204 

      • D. Steuer, H. van Impel, A. R. Gibson, V. Schulz-von der Gathen, M. Böke, J. Golda
        'State enhanced actinometry in the COST microplasma jet'
        Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 31 (2022), 10LT01

      • Maximilian Klich, Sebastian Wilczek, Zoltan Donko and Ralf Peter Brinkmann
        'Simulation and modeling of radio-frequency atmospheric pressure plasmas in the non-neutral regime'
        Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 31 (2022), 045003

      • Hannah L. Wapshott-Stehli, Brayden G. Myers, María J. Herrera Quesada, Amy Grunden, Katharina Stapelmann
        'Plasma-driven biocatalysis: In situ hydrogen peroxide production with an atmospheric pressure plasma jet increases the performance of OleTJE when compared to adding the same molar amount of hydrogen peroxide in bolus'
        Plasma Processes and Polymers, 19 (2022) 2100160
2021

      • Y. He, P. Preissing, D. Steuer, M. Klich, V. Schulz-von der Gathen, M. Böke
        'A zero-dimensional model of atmospheric-pressure plasma jet in binary and ternary mixtures of oxygen and nitrogen with helium background'
        Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 30(10), 105017

      • Electron power absorption in micro atmospheric pressure plasma jets driven by tailored voltage waveforms in He/N2
        M. Vass, S. Wilczek, J. Schulze, Z. Donko
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol.  30 105010 (2021)

      • Korolov, I; Steuer, D; Bischoff, L; Hübner, G; Liu, Y; Schulz-von der Gathen, V; Boeke, M; Mussenbrock, T; Schulze, J
        'Atomic oxygen generation in atmospheric pressure RF plasma jets driven by tailored voltage waveforms in mixtures of He and O2'
        J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 54, 125203 (2021)

      • Myers, B., Barnat, E., & Stapelmann, K.
        Atomic oxygen density determination in the effluent of the COST reference source using in situ effective lifetime measurements in the presence of a liquid interface
        J. Phys. D-Applied Physiics, 8 (2021) 

      • D. Steuer, I. Korolov, S. Chur, J. Schulze, V. Schulz-von der Gathen, J. Golda, M. Böke
        '2d spatially resolved O atom density profiles in an atmospheric pressure plasma jet: from the active plasma volume to the effluent'
        J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 54, 355204 (2021)

      • Korolov, Ihor; Donko, Zoltan; Hübner, Gerrit; Liu, Yue; Mussenbrock, Thomas; Schulze, Julian
        'Energy efficiency of voltage waveform tailoring for the generation of excited species in RF plasma jets operated in He/N2mixtures'
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 30, 095013 (2021)

      • K. Sgonina, G. Bruno, S. Wyprich, et al.
        'Reactions of plasma-generated atomic oxygen at the surface of aqueous phenol solution: Experimental and modeling study'
        J. Appl. Phys. 130, 043303 (2021)

      • H. Xu, M. Shaban, S. Wang, A. Alkayal, D. Liu, M.G. Kong, F. Plasser, d B.R. Buckley and F. Iza
        'Oxygen harvesting from carbon dioxide: simultaneous epoxidation and CO formation'
        Chem. Sci. 12, 13373–13378 (2021)

      • Y. Liu, I. Korolov, J. Trieschmann, D. Steuer, V. Schulz-von der Gathen, M. Böke, L. Bischoff, G. Hübner, J. Schulze, T. Mussenbrock
        'Micro atmospheric pressure plasma jets excited in He/O2 by voltage waveform tailoring: A study based on a numerical hybrid model and experiments'
        Plasma Source. Sci. Technol. 30, 064001 (2021)

      • B Myers, P Ranieri, T Smirnova, P Hewitt, D Peterson, M Herrera Quesada, E Lenker and K Stapelmann
        Measuring plasma-generated ·OH and O atoms in liquid using EPR spectroscopy and the non-selectivity of the HTA assay
        J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 54 145202 (2021)

      • Katharina Stapelmann, Brayden Myers, Maria Herrera Quesada, Eleanor Lenker and Pietro J Ranieri
        'Following O and OH in He/O2 and He/H2O gas mixtures—from the gas phase through the liquid phase to modifications on a biological sample'
        J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 54 (2021) 434003
2020
      • Preissing, Patrick; Korolov, Ihor; Schulze, Julian; Schulz-von der Gathen, Volker; Böke, Marc
        '3-dimensional density distributions of NO in the effluent of the COST Reference Microplasma Jet operated in He/N2/O2'
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 29, 125001 (2020)

      • I. Korolov, M. Leimkühler, M. Böke, J. Schulze, Z. Donkó, T. Lafleur, S. Wilczek, R.P. Brinkmann, V. Schulz-von der Gathen, L. Bischoff, G. Hübner, P. Hartmann, T. Gans, Y. Liu, T. Mussenbrock, J. Schulze
        'Helium metastable species generation in atmospheric pressure RF plasma jets driven by tailored voltage waveforms in mixtures of He and N2'
        J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 53 (2020) 185201

      • Judith Golda, Kerstin Sgonina, Julian Held, Jan Benedikt, Volker Schulz-von der Gathen
        'Treating surfaces with a cold atmospheric pressure plasma using the COST-Jet'
        J. Vis.Exp. (165), E61801 (2020)

      • Judith Golda, Beatrix Biskup, Vincent Layes, Tristan Winzer, Jan Benedikt
        Vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy of cold atmospheric pressure plasma jets
        Plasma Process Polym. 2020;17:e1900216

      • Martin Hanicinec, Sebastian Mohr and Jonathan Tennyson
        'Fast species ranking for iterative species-oriented skeletal reduction of chemistry sets'
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 29 (2020) 125024

      • Sotiris Mouchtouris and George Kokkoris
        'A novel plasma fluid model for fast 2D calculations in capacitively coupled atmospheric pressure plasma jets'
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 30 (2021) 01LT01

      • Riedel, Frederik; Golda, Judith; Held, Julian; Davis, Helen; van der Woulde, Marjan; bredin, jerome; Niemi, Kari; Gans, Timo; Schulz-von der Gathen, Volker; O'Connell, Deborah
        'Reproducibility of 'COST Reference Microplasma Jet''
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. (2020) 095018

      • P. Ranieri, H. Mohamed, B. Myers, L. Dobossy, K. Beyries, D. Trosan, F. Miller and C. Krebs, V Katharina Stapelmann
        GSH Modification as a Marker for Plasma Source and Biological Response Comparison to Plasma Treatment
        Appl. Sci. 10 (2020) 2025 

      • Vít Jirásek and Petr Lukeš
        Competitive reactions in Cl− solutions treated by plasma-supplied O atoms
        J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 53 (2020) 505206

      • Gert Willems, Ante Hecimovic, Kerstin Sgonina, Emile Carbone and Jan Benedikt
        Mass spectrometry of neutrals and positive ions in He/CO2 non-equilibrium atmospheric plasma jet
        Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 62 (2020) 034005

2019
      • Y. Gorbanev, J. Golda, V. Schulz-von der Gathen, A. Bogaerts
        'Applications of the COST Plasma Jet: More than a Reference Standard'
        Plasma 2019, 2(3), 316-327

      • J. Golda, F. Kogelheide, P. Awakowicz, V. Schulz-von der Gathen
        'Dissipated electrical power and electron density in an RF atmospheric pressure helium plasma jet'
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 28 (2019) 095023

      • J. W. Lackmann, G. Bruno, H. Jablonowski, F. Kogelheide, B. Offerhaus, J. Held, V. Schulz-von der Gathen, K. Stapelmann, Th. von Woedtke, K. Wende
        'Nitrosylation vs. oxidation – how to modulate cold physical plasmas for biological applications'
        PLOS ONE 14 (2019) e0216606

      • A. Gibson, Z. Donkó, L. Alelyani, L. Bischoff, G. Hübner, J. Bredin, S. Doyle, I. Korolov, K. Niemo, T. Mussenbrock, P. Hartmann, J. Dedrick, J. Schulze, T. Gans, D. O'Connell
        'Disrupting the spatio-temporal symmetry of the electron dynamics in atmospheric pressure plasmas by voltage waveform tailoring'
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 28, 01LT01 (2019)

      • Han Xu,Sui Wang,Muhammad Shaban,Faraz Montazersadgh,Anas Alkayal,Dingxin Liu,Michael G. Kong,Benjamin R. Buckley,Felipe Iza
        'trans-Stilbene epoxidation by He+O2 atmospheric pressure plasma: Epoxidation without oxidant waste stream'
        Plasma Processes and Polymers 17 (2019) 1900162

      • I. Korolov, Z. Donkó, G. Hübner, L. Bischoff, P. Hartmann, T. Gans, Y. Liu, T. Mussenbrock, J. Schulze
        'Control of electron dynamics, radical and metastable species generation in atmospheric pressure RF plasma jets by Voltage Waveform Tailoring'
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 28, 094001 (2019)

      • Yury Gorbanev, Jonas Van der Paal, Wilma Van Boxem, Sylvia Dewilde and Annemie Bogaerts
        Reaction of chloride anion with atomic oxygen in aqueous solutions: can cold plasma help in chemistry research?
        Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21 (2019) 4117

      • V. Jirásek and Petr Lukes
        Formation of reactive chlorine species in saline solution treated by non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure He/O2 plasma jet
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 28 (2019) 035015

      • M. M. Hefny, D. Nečas, L. Zajíčková and J. Benedikt
        The transport and surface reactivity of O atoms during the atmospheric plasma etching of hydrogenated amorphous carbon films
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 28 (2019) 035010

2018
      • L. Bischoff, G. Hübner, I. Korolov, Z. Donkó, P. Hartmann, T. Gans, J. Held, V. Schulz-von der Gathen, Y. Liu, T. Mussenbrock, J. Schulze
        'Experimental and computational investigations of electron dynamics in micro atmospheric pressure radio-frequency plasma jets operated in He/N2 mixture'
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 27 (2018)125009

      • Y. Gorbanev,  C. C. W. Verlackt,  S. Tinck,  E. Tuenter,  K. Foubert,  P. Cos  and  A. Bogaerts,
        'Combining experimental and modelling approaches to study the sources of reactive species induced in water by the COST RF plasma jet'
        Physical Chemistry Chemical Phys. 20 (2018) 2797-2808

      • J.-W. Lackmann, K. Wende, Ch. C. W. Verlackt, J. Golda, J. Volzke, F. Kogelheide, J. Held, S. Bekeschus, A. Bogaerts, V. Schulz-von der Gathen, and K. Stapelmann,
        'Chemical fingerprints of cold physical plasmas – an experimental and computational study using cysteine as tracer compound'
        Scientific reports (2018) 8:7736

      • Angela Privat-Maldonado and Annemie Bogaerts, Yury Gorbanev, Sylvia Dewilde, Evelien Smits
        'Reduction of Human Glioblastoma Spheroids Using Cold Atmospheric Plasma: The Combined Effect of Short- and Long-Lived Reactive Species'
        Cancers  10 (2018) 394

      • Sandra Schröter, Andrew R Gibson, Mark J Kushner, Timo Gans and Deborah O’Connell,
        'Numerical study of the influence of surface reaction probabilities on reactive species in an rf atmospheric pressure plasma containing humidity',
        Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 60 (2018) 014035
        Erratum: Numerical study of the influence of surface reaction probabilities on reactive species in an rf atmospheric pressure plasma containing humidity
        Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 60 (2018) 019601

      • J. Benedikt, M. Mokhtar Hefny, A. Shaw, B. R. Buckley, F. Iza, S. Schäkermann and J. E. Bandow
        The fate of plasma-generated oxygen atoms in aqueous solutions: non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure plasmas as an efficient source of atomic O(aq)
        Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 20 (2018) 12037-12042

2017
      • Sander Bekeschus, Kristian Wende, Mohamed Mokhtar Hefny, Katrin Rödder, Helena Jablonowski, Anke Schmidt, Thomas von Woedtke, Klaus-Dieter Weltmann & Jan Benedikt
        Oxygen atoms are critical in rendering THP-1 leukaemia cells susceptible to cold physical plasma-induced apoptosis
        Scientific Reports 7 (2017) 2791
2016
      • J Golda, J Held, B Redeker, M Konkowski, P Beijer, A Sobota, G Kroesen, N St J Braithwaite, S Reuter, M M Turner, T Gans, D O’Connell and V Schulz-von der Gathen,
        'Concepts and characteristics of the ‘COST Reference Microplasma Jet’’,
      • P A C Beijer, A Sobota, E M van Veldhuizen and G M W Kroesen,
        'Multiplying probe for accurate power measurements on an RF driven atmospheric pressure plasma jet applied to the COST reference microplasma jet’,
      • M M Turner
        'Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in complex plasma chemistry models’,
2015
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      • S. Schneider, F. Jarzina, J.-W. Lackmann, J. Golda, V. Schulz–von der Gathen, J.E. Bandow, J. Benedikt,
        'Summarizing results on the performance of a selective set of atmospheric plasma jets for separation of photons and reactive particles',
        J. Phys. D.: Appl. Phys. 48 (2015) 444001

      • S. Große-Kreul, S. Hübner, S. Schneider, D. Ellerweg, A. von Keudell, S. Matejcik, J. Benedikt,
        'Mass spectrometry of atmospheric pressure plasmas',
        Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 24 (2015) 044008

      • M. M. Hefny1, C. Pattyn, P. Lukes and J. Benedikt
        Atmospheric plasma generates oxygen atoms as oxidizing species in aqueous solutions
        J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49 (2016) 404002

      • Gert Willems, Jan Benedikt and Achim von Keudell
        Absolutely calibrated mass spectrometry measurement of reactive and stable plasma chemistry products in the effluent of a He/H2O atmospheric plasma
        J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 50 (2017) 335204

      • C. C. W. Verlackt, W. Van Boxem. D. Dewaele. F. Lemière. J. Sobott, J. Benedikt, E. C. Neyts, A. Bogaerts
        Mechanisms of Peptide Oxidation by Hydroxyl Radicals: Insight at the Molecular Scale
        J. Phys. Chem. C  121, 10 (2017)  5787-5799

      • G. Willems, J. Golda, D. Ellerweg, J. Benedikt, A. von Keudell, N. Knake and V. Schulz-von der Gathen
        Corrigendum: Characterization of the effluent of a He/O2 micro-scaled atmospheric pressure plasma jet by quantitative molecular beam mass spectrometry (2010 New J. Phys. 12 013021)
        New J. Phys. 21 (2019) 059501