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6-Aug-2024

Heating for fusion: Why toast plasma when you can microwave it!

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Can plasma be sufficiently heated inside a tokamak using only microwaves? New research suggests it can! Eliminating the central ohmic heating coil normally used in tokamaks will free up much-needed space for a more compact, efficient spherical tokamak.

Journal

Nuclear Fusion

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DOE/US Department of Energy

9-Jul-2024

Detecting defects in tomorrow’s technology

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from PPPL and the University of Delaware offers an enhanced understanding of common defects in transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) — a potential replacement for silicon in computer chips — and lays the foundation for etching smaller features.

Journal

2D Materials

Funder

DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, DOE/US Department of Energy, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, U.S. National Science Foundation

3-Jul-2024

Machine learning could aid efforts to answer long-standing astrophysical questions

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

PPPL physicists have developed a computer program incorporating machine learning that could help identify blobs of plasma in outer space known as plasmoids. In a novel twist, the program has been trained using simulated data.

Journal

Earth and Space Science