Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory designated an historic mechanical engineering site
Princeton Plasma Physics LaboratoryAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers names PPPL an historic landmark site.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers names PPPL an historic landmark site.
PPPL physicist Sam Cohen and a local company win a Federal Laboratory Consortium award for a rocket propulsion technology.
Shannon Swilley Greco, a program leader in the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Science Education Office, is vice chair elect of the American Physical Society's Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public.
PPPL has won a national award from the U.S. Department of Energy for its sustainable buying practices.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and other laboratories, using data from a NASA four-satellite mission that is studying reconnection, have developed a method for identifying the source of waves that help satellites determine their location in space.
Companies dealing with liquids ranging from wastewater to molten metals could benefit from a prize-winning device developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University.
Feature describes lifetime career award for PPPL physicist and professor Nat Fisch.
New research involving computer simulations gives physicists confidence that they can peer into the inner workings of plasma thrusters.
Embargoed news release reports discovery of important new method for reducing instabilities in fusion plasmas without triggering fresh instabilities that can damage a fusion facility's walls.
Graduate physics students from across the country recently descended on PPPL for the first PPPL Graduate Summer School — a series of lectures the week of Aug. 13 on topics in the field of plasma physics and an opportunity to meet other students with similar research interests.
Piece describes selection of deep learning system for predicting fusion disruptions as one of 10 Aurora Early Science exascale projects.
On August 15, a cohort of undergraduate students who had participated in the Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internship and Community College Internship programs presented the results of the plasma physics work they had completed since their internships began on June 11.
In a set of recent experiments, scientists have tamed a damaging plasma instability in a way that could lead to the efficient and steady-state operation of ITER, the international tokamak experiment under construction in France to demonstrate the practicality of fusion power.
Article describes PPPL research to help General Electric design a high-voltage power switch for converting DC current to AC current over long-distance power transmission lines.
A look at a the sixth annual three-day workshop in which scientists from around the world focused on mitigating disruptions in ITER, the international fusion facility under construction in France.
DOE award of 40 million core hours on Cori supercomputer to scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory enables simulation of damaging disruptions so that researchers can learn how to stop them.
Article describes simulation of physics behind elimination of sawtooth instabilities.
Article describes dissertation award won by Seth Davidovits.
Steven Cowley, a theoretical physicist and international authority on fusion energy, became the seventh Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPon July 1 and will be Princeton professor of astrophysical sciences on September 1.
“Our research sheds new light on the function of plasma, the state of matter that comprises 99 percent of the visible universe,” writes Steve Cowley, new director of PPPL. Quest summarizes much of the research that occurred at PPPL over the last year.
Article describes XICS measurement of W7-X temperature that contributed to stellarator world record.
Article describes PPPL winner of DOE Early Career Awards.
Steven Cowley, newly named director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) effective July 1, has received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth “for services to science and the development of nuclear fusion.”
Article describes results of new simulation of magnetic islands.
Article about 23rd international biennial conference on plasma surface interactions in controlled fusion devices to be held June 17-22 at Princeton University.
New research indicates a way to more accurately measure the electrical properties of plasma when it meets a solid surface.
Steven Cowley, a theoretical physicist and international authority on fusion energy, has been named director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), effective July 1.
A team of PPPL scientists has won a DOE Office of Science award to develop new X-ray diagnostics for WEST — the Tungsten (W) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak — in Cadarache, France.
Article describes effect of ion and electron heating on multiscale turbulence in fusion plasmas.
Article announces William Tang's NVIDIA award.
Feature describes use of PPPL-provided trim coils to correct W7-X error fields during fusion experiments.
A team of researchers has compiled a database of information from five fusion machines and found that halo currents could damage the walls of fusion devices like ITER, the international experiment under construction in France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power.
Article describes conditions that lead to plasma chirping that signals loss of heat that can slow fusion reactions.
Announcement describes completion of construction of FLARE, a powerful new machine to study magnetic reconnection.
Physicists at PPPL have recently found that drifting particles in plasma can forestall instabilities that reduce the pressure crucial to high-performance fusion reactions inside these facilities.
Article describes use of new diagnostics to advance understanding of the plasma nanosynthesis of widely used nanoparticles.
Scientists at PPPL have discovered key conditions that give rise to fast magnetic reconnection, the process that triggers solar flares, auroras, and geomagnetic storms that can disrupt signal transmissions and other electrical activities, including cell phone service.
Article describes fusion breakthroughs cited by DOE Office of Science among research milestones of the past 40 years.
Article describes dissertation award for graduate of Princeton University Department of Astrophysical Sciences.
PPPL physicist Francesca Poli and coauthors recently published findings that describe an approach that for the first time simultaneously simulates the plasma, the magnetic islands, and the feedback control from waves that provide so-called electron cyclotron heating and current drive.
Scientists have found that lithium powder can eliminate instabilities known as edge-localized modes (ELMs) when used to coat a tungsten plasma-facing component called the “divertor.”
Physicists David Johnson and Charles Skinner named ITER Scientist Fellows.
Theoretical physicist Elena Belova named to editorial board of Physics of Plasmas
Article lists 10 PPPL stories, plus a bonus, that readers may have missed in 2017.
Article describes method of preventing plasma from causing short circuits in machines such as spacecraft thrusters.
Article describes development of deep learning neural network to predict disruptions of fusion plasma.
Announcement of Fusion Power Associates career award for Stewart Prager
Feature describes supercomputer allocations of 210 million core hours to PPPL physicists.
Article describes Princeton and PPPL papers on the detrimental impact of stellar wind on the atmosphere of exoplanets.
Scientists from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have built and delivered a high-resolution X-ray spectrometer for the largest and most powerful laser facility in the world.