The artificial creation of plasma in a laboratory setting has received a lot of attention in recent years due to its numerous scientific and technical applications. This overview illustrates the basic ideas of plasma, its classification, and the main laboratory procedures used for plasma creation. In this sense, there are several ways to create plasma, such as dielectric barrier discharge (DBD), microwave plasma, atmospheric plasma jet, laser-induced plasma, and sputtering plasma. Along with representative studies published in the literature, the general characteristics and operating principles of these methods are described. Additionally, we go over the main uses of plasma technology, such as the creation of nanoparticles, thin-film deposition, surface modification, biomedical treatments, and environmental processing. The findings show that plasma generating methods are crucial to contemporary material science, nanotechnology, and biomedical applications, and their advancement keeps expanding the potential of plasma technology in a variety of scientific and industrial domains.

Keywords: plasma generation, dielectric barrier discharge, microwave plasma, plasma applications, nanotechnology.