The new Plasma Chemistry Import feature can automatically create a complete plasma chemistry from a text file for models using the Plasma interface and the Plasma, Time Periodic interface. The contents of the text file can specify the aspects of a plasma chemistry, including species properties such as thermodynamic parameters, electron impact reactions from cross sections and rate constants, heavy-species reactions, and surface reactions. This feature is especially useful for plasma chemistries involving a large number of species and reactions. The following tutorial models use this new feature:

The Surface Reaction Group feature allows for the input of large sets of surface reactions in a table. Reaction data can be entered manually, imported from a file, or added automatically using the Plasma Chemistry import feature. The following new models demonstrate the use of this feature:

Two new features, Inductive Stochastic Heating and Capacitive Stochastic Heating, introduce an additional contribution to the electron collision frequency for momentum transfer, accounting for stochastic heating effects. This stochastic collision frequency is based on analytical models and can be applied to user-defined regions of the plasma domain.