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Yuan Shi wins 2020 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Profile of Yuan Shi, graduate of the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics based at PPPL and winner of this year's Outstanding Thesis Award presented by the American Physical Society.

While birds chirp, plasma shouldn't: New insight could advance fusion energy

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at PPPL have furthered understanding of a barrier that can prevent doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks from operating at high efficiency by causing vital heat to be lost from them.

Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Worldwide stellarator research goes virtual

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Feature describes weekly virtual stellarator conferences held in lieu of annual face-to-face meeting because of COVID-19 travel restrictions.

Mathematical noodling leads to new insights into an old fusion problem

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at PPPL have gained new insight into a common type of plasma hiccup that interferes with fusion reactions. These findings could help bring fusion energy closer to reality.

Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Funder: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, DOE/US Department of Energy

Scientists develop new tool to design better fusion devices

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

One way that scientists seek to bring to Earth the fusion process that powers the stars is trapping plasma within a twisting magnetic coil device shaped like a breakfast cruller. But the device, called a stellarator, must be precisely engineered to prevent heat from escaping the plasma core where it stokes the fusion reactions. Now, PPPL researchers have demonstrated that an advanced computer code could help design stellarators that confine the essential heat more effectively.

Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Quest, PPPL's annual research magazine, reports breakthroughs and discoveries during the past year

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

News release announces online publication of annual research magazine Quest.

Matthew Kunz, Princeton and PPPL astrophysicist, receives prestigious NSF dual-purpose award

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Profile of recipient of five-year NSF award to study the evolution of astrophysical magnetic fields and establish a summer school to attract women and underrepresented minorities to plasma physics.

A proven method for stabilizing efforts to bring fusion power to Earth

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and General Atomics have demonstrated a method for stabilizing fusion plasmas by suppressing edge localized modes (ELMs).

Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Groundbreaking Maryland physicist wins Princeton Presidential Fellowship to bring her skills to PPPL

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Article profiles standout doctoral graduate who has developed a mathematical method to facilitate development of stellarator fusion facilities.

New research deepens understanding of Earth's interaction with the solar wind

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists at PPPL and Princeton University has reproduced a process that occurs in space to deepen understanding of what happens when the Earth encounters the solar wind.

Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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