Harnessing the power that makes the sun and stars shine could be made easier by powerful magnets with straighter shapes than have been made before. Researchers linked to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have found a way to create such magnets for fusion facilities known as stellarators.
Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have detailed a roadmap for untangling a key aspect of magnetic recognition that could deepen insight into the workings of the cosmos.
PPPL becomes first institutional affiliate of new center for quantum-based applications in computing, communication, and sensing to benefit national security, economic competitiveness, and leadership in scientific discovery.
Amelia Chambliss, a recent Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship student at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, discussed the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and public outreach at the White House fusion energy summit.
Steve Cowley, PPPL director, was among climate and energy experts from national laboratories, universities, private industry, government agencies, and congressional representatives gathered together on March 17 at the first ever White House summit, “Developing a Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy,” organized by the Office of Science Technology Policy (OSTP) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
PPPL is now accepting applications for its latest cohort of apprentices for fields including electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, information technology, welding, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HAC).
A description of the Laboratory's process to extend Moore's law that has doubled the number of transistors that can be packed on a microchip roughly every two years and develop new ways to produce ever-more capable, efficient, and cost-effective chips.
PPPL scientists have designed a new type of magnet that could aid devices ranging from doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks to medical machines that create detailed pictures of the human body.
Top officials from the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy visited the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory recently to discuss how to accelerate the development of fusion energy as a clean, abundant, and safe way to generate electricity.
A close-up look at the PPPL collaboration that helped set the stage for JET's recent record output that advances the development of safe and clean fusion power.
The 2022 College and University Women in Physics Conference kicked off with a virtual tour led by a science educator, a physicist and an engineer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
PPPL researchers have gained insight into a fundamental process found throughout the universe. This insight could help scientists predict enormous burps of plasma from the sun that could threaten satellites and electrical grids on Earth.
Arturo Dominguez, the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's (PPPL) new head of Science Education, is a plasma physicist who has been a science educator at PPPL for nearly 10 years.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Science on Saturday lecture series features cutting-edge science talks by researchers from around the country. It will be held online again this year beginning Jan. 29
Path-setting findings demonstrate for the first time a novel regime for confining heat in stellarators. The demonstration could advance the twisty design as a blueprint for future fusion power plants.
The growing interest in deep-space exploration has sparked the need for powerful long-lived rocket systems to drive spacecraft through the cosmos. Scientists at PPPL have developed a tiny version of a Hall thruster propulsion system that increases the lifetime of the rocket and produces high power.
Tim Stevenson, an engineer who has been an integral part of major experiments in his 37-year career at PPPL, was named a Distinguished Engineering Fellow for his contributions to two flagship experiments in the drive to bring to Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars.
Profile of path-setting method to simulate the crazy-quilt movement of free electrons during experimental efforts to harness on Earth the fusion power that drives the sun and stars. The method cracks a complex equation that can enable improved control of the random and fast-moving moving electrons in the fuel for fusion energy.
David McComas, Princeton University vice president for PPPL, has won a prestigious award for his space plasma research, including leading or taking part in dozens of NASa missions.
PPPL researchers have uncovered a process in the swirling masses of plasma surrounding black holes and neutron stars that can cause previously unexplained emissions of light and heat. These findings can increase basic understanding of fundamental astrophysical processes throughout the universe.
Physicists Robert Goldston and Jacob Schwartz present a broad overview of the development of fusion energy on Earth and relate it to the mitigation of climate change.
While trying out a new device that injects powder to clean up the walls of the world’s largest stellarator, scientists were pleased to find that the bits of atoms confined by magnetic fields within the device got temporarily hotter after each injection, leading to better fusion performance.
Min-Gu Yoo, a postdoctoral physicist in the Theory Department at PPPL, won an Under 40 Young Researcher Award from the Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies-Division of Plasma Physics for his research on ohmic breakdown in tokamaks.
Eduardo Rodriguez, a graduate student in the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics at PPPL, details how he feels about winning a highly selective Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship from Princeton University and his current research on quasisymmetric stellarators.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory celebrated America Recycles Day this week after recently winning a state Recycling Leadership Award for its recycling and sustainability programs.
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm recently paid a visit to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory where she met with staff, took a virtual tour of the Laboratory, and learned more about PPPL's primary mission of developing fusion energy as clean and abundant source of electricity as well as expanded research directions exploring plasma applications in microelectronics and sustainability and advanced computing.
Article describes presentation to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology the report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine that calls for rapidly assembling public, private and university partnerships to carry out plans for an electricity-generating pilot plant.
Researchers at PPPL have made simple changes to equations that model the movement of heat in plasma. The changes improve insights that could help engineers avoid the conditions that could lead to heat loss in future fusion facilities.
PPPL and Princeton University demonstrate a novel technique for overcoming a barrier to the application of stronger-than-steel graphene for a vast array of industrial and scientific uses.
Emily A. Carter, former dean of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science, and most recently executive vice chancellor and provost at UCLA, has been named Senior Strategic Advisor for Sustainability Science at PPPL.
Theoretical and computational physicist Greg Hammett, a leader in advancing understanding of the complex turbulence that controls the performance of fusion plasmas and a dedicated educator, has been named a 2021 Distinguished Scientist Fellow by the DOE’s Office of Science.
The two awards will enable physicists to use lasers to reproduce high-energy astrophysical plasmas under extreme conditions to probe processes such as space storms that can disrupt cell phone service.
World-class expertise in the study of plasma — the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei, or ions, that makes up 99 percent of the visible universe — has won frontier science projects for three physicists at PPPL.
Collaboration led by PPPL has identified a chemical pathway to an innovative nanomaterial that could lead to large-scale production for applications ranging from spacesuits to military vehicles.
Summer interns working for PPPL did hands-on research from their computers in their bedrooms or on their dining room tables all over the U.S. They worked closely with PPPL physicists and engineers on research aimed at understanding ionized gases called plasmas.
A quantum diamond sensor that can produce magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of single molecules will be developed by a collaborative venture led by PPPL.
Results of a heat-confinement experiment on the twisty magnetic Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany could enable devices based on the W7-X design to lead to a practical fusion reactor.
Researchers at PPPL have used supercomputers and a state-of-the-art computer code to simulate plasma in fusion devices under a wider range of conditions than ever before.