Analysis of material reliability features of plasma material interactions
Alper Pahsa · 2026
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Description
Alper Pahsa studies how plasma wears down metal surfaces in a 2026 paper. Plasma is a hot, charged gas used in fusion machines and chip making. It can pit and roughen the walls it touches over time. Pahsa tests whether cheap image based checks can stand in for costly lab scans of that wear.
He compared rough surface measures from two tools on aluminum samples hit by helium plasma. One tool scans the surface up close, and the other takes images of it. Both tools gave near the same results for top and bottom plates. Pahsa warns that the sample set was tiny, so wider tests are still needed before broad use.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alper Pahsa |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 62 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |