Plasma production and heating is a research area focused on generating ionized gases and raising their temperature and energy content to conditions required for fundamental studies and applications such as magnetic and inertial confinement fusion, space propulsion, and high-energy-density physics. It encompasses methods of plasma formation (e.g., gas breakdown, beam- or laser-induced ionization, RF discharges) and a range of heating schemes including ohmic (resistive) heating, radio-frequency and microwave heating, neutral beam injection, and wave–particle interaction techniques. Research addresses efficiency, control of energy deposition, stability, impurity management, and optimization of plasma parameters for confinement and performance.
Fusion energy is being developed as a solution to global energy problems. In particular, the magnetic confinement method, in which ultra-high temperature plasma is confined by a magnetic field, is the most advanced and is ...
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A team led by Prof. Lyu Bo and Dr. Bae Cheonho from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new code to analyze the multi-fluid plasma rotation and transport properties ...
Plasma Physics
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The Korean artificial sun, KSTAR, has completed divertor upgrades, allowing it to operate for extended periods sustaining high-temperature plasma over 100 million degrees.
Plasma Physics
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have developed a new plasma-enabled process that could limit the proliferation of toxins from implants into a patient's bloodstream. The ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 22, 2022
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Super strong and only one atom thick, graphene holds promise as a nanomaterial for everything from microelectronics to clean energy storage. But lack of one property has limited its use. Now, researchers at Princeton University ...
Nanomaterials
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Researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a novel approach of green synthesis of silver nanoparticles and reduced graphene oxide composite material (AgNPs@rGO) ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 29, 2021
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used high power impulse magnetron scattering (HiPIMS) to create thin films of tungsten with unprecedentedly low levels of film stress. By optimizing the timing of a substrate ...
Nanophysics
Jul 5, 2021
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