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Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion

SnehaJanuary 25, 2023

NERS students win a student-led competition, acquire seed funding to develop proposal for pulsed-power and nuclear fusion facility

portrait of Akash Shah & Brendan Sporer

The work of Akash Shah and Brendan Sporer will support pulsed-power-driven fusion research, fusion-enabling technologies, and fundamental science pursuits.

Sara NormanAugust 25, 2022

Majdi Radaideh, Stephen Raiman, and Yang Zhang join NERS faculty

a midcentury modern building facade

The new additions to the department point to a positive future and offer a breadth of educational and research experience.

Sara NormanAugust 5, 2022

New partnership between U-M/ZEUS and ELI-Beamlines will study antimatter creation with lasers

a rendering of ZEUS operating

The National Science Foundation award will support a collaboration between U-M, the ELI Beamlines facility, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

engindeptsJune 3, 2022

Solar Powered, Point-of-Use Plasma Disinfection Tool for Clean Water on Demand

John Foster’s group is developing a plasma-device for disinfecting water on-demand that will be solar- or human-powered.

Sara NormanApril 21, 2022

Mark Perreault retires after 23 years

Mark Perreault portrait

Perreault was Senior Electronics Technician for the Plasma, Pulsed Power, and Microwave Laboratory.

Sara NormanDecember 17, 2021

Q&A with Brendan Sporer

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Brendan won a Best Paper Award at the IEEE Pulsed Power Conference.

SnehaDecember 9, 2021

NERS awarded funding from the Department of Defense for new pulsed power driver

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The equipment will be located in the Plasma, Pulsed Power, and Microwave Laboratory.

Sara NormanOctober 18, 2021

John Foster named Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Foster is recognized for improving fundamental understanding of transport across the span of low-temperature plasmas.

Sara NormanSeptember 15, 2021

Dion Li discovers electromagnetic shock phenomenon omitted from Ramo-Shockley theorem

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The Engineering Physics student was published in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.

Sara NormanSeptember 15, 2021

Annie Kritcher leads revolutionary nuclear fusion experiment

two lasers blasting a large bright orb

The NERS alum and her team at LLNL came close to reproducing the power of the sun on earth.

Sara NormanAugust 17, 2021

Strong magnetic fields change how friction works in plasma

These images show the trajectories of an electron in the plasma (blue) and an ion (red) passing through the plasma. In (g), the electron starts on the right of the ion’s path, whereas in (h) it starts on the left. Because the electrons in a strongly magnetized plasma behave differently depending on where they start relative to the ion, they create an asymmetric drag on the moving ion, the researchers found. Credit: Louis Jose, Plasma Theory Group, University of Michigan

Rather than just slowing down a charged particle moving through a plasma, friction can also push from the side in a strong magnetic field.

Sara NormanJuly 30, 2021

Scott Baalrud receives funding to research high-energy-density plasmas

Scott Baalrud portrait

Baalrud will research the dynamic structure of magnetized high-energy-density plasmas.

Sara NormanJune 30, 2021

Ryan McBride leads IEEE TPS Best Paper

The paper is based on a tutorial presentation at the Mini-Course on Charged Particle Beams and High-Powered Pulsed Sources.

Sara NormanMay 3, 2021

Fluid motion induced by plasma interaction with water with self-organization

NERS PhD Student Zimu Yang writes Featured Article in the Journal of Applied Physics.

Sara NormanApril 29, 2021

Brendan Sporer receives DOE NNSA Fellowship

brendan sporer portrait

The NERS PhD student has embarked on a project to create high-density field reversed configurations.

Sara NormanApril 23, 2021

Prof. Ryan McBride named PPML Director

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The current Director, Prof. Ronald Gilgenbach has decided to step down effective May 1.

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