Additional Press Releases

Magnetic Fusion

A New Imaging X-Ray Crystal Spectrometer Advances State-of-the-Art for Measurements of Ion Temperature and Plasma Rotation Velocity Profiles in Tokamaks

Producing Continuous Electrical Currents in a Fusion Device Using High Power Radio Waves

Plasma bursts eliminated by small archipelagos in a chaotic magnetic sea

Keep the fire burning in a fusion reactor

More Efficient Penetration of Fusion Plasmas By Radiofrequency Beams

Simulating a "soft landing" for an unstable fusion plasma

Lithium surface coatings improve plasma performance in the National Spherical Torus Experiment

New insight on how fusion plasmas escape from their magnetic bottle

Subtle changes in plasma shape provides lift in fusion performance

Reversing plasma spin leads to higher performance

Measuring electron-scale turbulence in a fusion plasma

Keeping cool while studying plasma turbulence at 100 million degrees

Heating laboratory plasma to 100 million degrees

Advanced Computing

Ultra Fast Programs Developed for Future Ultra Fast Computers: The speed of light is too slow

Effects of relativity lead to "warp speed" computations

Basic Plasma Science

Super-bright laser uses plasma as amplifier-compressor

High Energy Density Physics

Shedding new light on old mysteries of Z pinches

Inertial Fusion

Laser squeeze play a key step toward igniting inertial fusion

Laser and Plasma-Based Accelerators

Electrons surf plasma waves to record-high energies

Plasma Technology

Plasma antennas can magically vanish