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PPPL findings could lead to ever-more powerful microchips and supercomputers

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A look at the process to extend "Moore's law,"which has doubled the number of transistors that can be packed on a microchip roughly every two years, and develop new ways to produce more capable, efficient, and cost-effective chips.

Journal: Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology

PPPL examines the performance of a fusion pilot plant to generate electricity

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Reports and Proceedings

The first detailed look at both a pilot plant and a comprehensive research facility.

Journal: Nuclear Fusion

A breakthrough once described as impossible brings a fusion energy device closer to realization

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Article profiles path-setting technique for improving the design of twisty stellarator fusion facilities.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

PPPL collaborations support the recent European production of historic fusion power

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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.

Common household cleaner can boost effort to harvest fusion energy on Earth

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Scientists at PPPL and Princeton University demonstrate a novel rocket for deep-space exploration

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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.

Journal: Applied Physics Letters

PPPL unravels a puzzle to speed the development of fusion energy

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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.

Journal: Journal of Computational Physics

Research reveals how plasma swirling around black holes can produce heat and light

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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.

Journal: The Astrophysical Journal Letters

PPPL scientists create insights into perhaps the most extreme state of matter produced on Earth

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Article describes ground-breaking report on measuring laser-produced high energy density plasmas published in Physical Review Letters.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Process leading to supernova explosions and cosmic radio bursts unearthed at PPPL

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A process important to black holes and supernovas has for the first time been demonstrated in a laboratory at PPPL.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

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