PSTL

Journal Articles

2026

• Sensitivity Analysis and Physics-Aware Deep Learning for Aluminum Mirror Coatings: When Network Architecture Outweighs Loss-Function Design

Erfan Ghapanvari, Mostafa Salahshoor

Under Consideration



• The Drift Line: Electron Confinement via E-B Orthogonality in Magnetron Sputtering Discharges

Mostafa Salahshoor

Under Review



• Influence of the Magnetic Field Intensity in a Divergent Configuration on Current-Voltage Characteristics of a Filament Cathode Plasma Source

Mostafa Salahshoor, Ehsan Bernosi, Ali Khosravi, Erfan Ghapanvari

Under Review



• The impact of emission location on electron confinement during pre-discharge conditions in a Hall effect thruster

Mostafa Salahshoor, Ali Rashid

Iranian Journal of Physics Research - (-) - Accepted



• Application-Aware Deep Learning for Optical Design: Enhancing Transmittance Prediction with a Domain-Specific Loss Function

Erfan Ghapanvari, Mostafa Salahshoor, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

Results in Optics 24, 101127

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rio.2026.101127



• Electron phase space distribution in a magnetron sputtering discharge

Mostafa Salahshoor

Physics of Plasmas 33 (4), 043502

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0319309

2025

• Sensitivity and tolerance analysis of single-layer MgF2 and SiO2 anti-reflection coatings

Erfan Ghapanvari, Mostafa Salahshoor

Scientific Reports 15 (1), 45126

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-33607-1



• Electron cumulative distribution function in a magnetron sputtering discharge

Mostafa Salahshoor

Physical Review E 112 (3), 035209

https://doi.org/10.1103/lh3s-yclm



• A novel hybrid arc discharge–thermal method for sustainable brine treatment and resource recovery

Maryam Keshavarzi, Gholamhassan Najafi, Mostafa Salahshoor, Mohammad Hadi Khoshtaghaza, Shiva Gorjian, Hamid Ghomi

Results in Engineering 27 (1) 106521

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2025.106521



• Filamentation instability of dust-acoustic wave at the initial stages of void formation in a current-driven collisional dusty plasma with variable dust charges

Ali Reza Niknam, Mahdi Lashgari, Melika Asghari, Tayebe Haghtalab, Seyed Mohammad Khorashadizadeh, Mostafa Salahshoor

Physics of Plasmas 32 (6) 063703

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0271344



• Electron mixing performance of a magnetron sputtering cathode

Mostafa Salahshoor

Journal of Applied Physics 137 (6), 063301

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0249336



• Spatial distributions of chemical species in a pin-to-plate dry air corona discharge

Maryam Keshavarzi, Mostafa Salahshoor, Gholamhassan Najafi, Mohammad Hadi Khoshtaghaza, Shiva Gorjian, Hamid Ghomi, Pourya Seyfi

Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing 45 (3), 873–918

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11090-025-10538-3

2024

• Electron trapping efficiency of a magnetron sputtering cathode

Mostafa Salahshoor

Plasma Sources Science and Technology 33 (6), 065004

https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ad52c0

2023

• Optical imaging and magnetic field simulation of a DC circular planar magnetron sputtering discharge

Ahmad Reza Rastkar, Ali Reza Niknam, Mostafa Salahshoor

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics 17 (4) 172338

https://dx.doi.org/10.57647/j.jtap.2023.1704.38



• Slipping instability of an inhomogeneous relativistic electron beam

Mostafa Salahshoor, Ali Reza Niknam, Babak Shokri

Physics of Plasmas 30 (6), 062108

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0145323

2019

• Resonance surface, microwave power absorption, and plasma density distribution in an electron cyclotron resonance ion source

Mostafa Salahshoor, Morteza Aslaninejad

Physical Review: Accelerator and Beams 22, 043402

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.043402

2017

• Electron beam focusing in the magnetic field of a bent electron beam evaporator

Mostafa Salahshoor, Ali Asghar Zavarian, Fatemeh Hafezi

Iranian Journal of Physics Research 17 (2), 263 (in Persian)

https://ijpr.iut.ac.ir/article_1259.html?lang=en

2015

• Complex plasma in g×B configurations: stability switching and stationary structure

Mostafa Salahshoor, Ali Reza Niknam

Physics of Plasmas 22, 083709

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4929857

2014

• Dust magneto-gravitational drift wave in g×B configuration

Mostafa Salahshoor, Ali Reza Niknam

Physics of Plasmas 21, 113702

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901199



• Dust gravitational drift wave in complex plasma under gravity

Mostafa Salahshoor, Ali Reza Niknam

Physics of Plasmas 21, 123706

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4904368

2012

• Simulation of filamentation instability of a current-carrying plasma by particle in cell method

Ali Reza Niknam, Parisa Sadat Mostafavi, Davood Komaizi, Mostafa Salahshoor

Physics of Plasmas 19, 082119

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4748956



• Construction of a hot cathode plasma source for ion beam sputter deposition

Mostafa Salahshoor, Ali Asghar Zavarian, Maryam Salehi

Iranian Journal of Surface Science and Engineering N.17, pp.41-46, (in Persian)

http://www.surfacejournal.ir/article_5311.html

2011

• Design of magnetic structure of a magnetron sputtering cathode by magnetic field simulation and investigation of deposition rate

Mostafa Salahshoor, Kouros Hamzeh, Ali Asghar Zavarian

Iranian Journal of Surface Science and Engineering N.11, pp.77-85, (in Persian)

https://www.sid.ir/paper/120999/en