Insights

Riverside Research’s plasma lab, located in Beavercreek, OH, provides the resources required to perform experiments in a controlled laboratory environment. We have three environmental vacuum chambers, each with the capability to precisely control test conditions that include gas composition, pressure, and temperature. Our largest chamber can accommodate materials or objects up to 2m X 2m X 4m depending on required test conditions. We also have several current and planned plasma sources and a full suite of plasma, gas, and microwave diagnostics capable of measuring plasma parameters, background gas composition, material temperature, and material electromagnetic properties. Additionally, we can heat materials to 2000 °C, or higher, using a custom built 100 kW graphite heater. These resources are ideal for studying ionospheric instabilities and waves, communications through plasmas, electromagnetic properties of high temperature materials, and plasma-material interactions.