Tag: Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion
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Ryan McBride receives 2018 ONR Young Investigator Award
By Kim Roth Associate Professor Ryan McBride has received a 2018 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research. The three-year award grants $170,000 annually for McBride’s proposal, “High-Power Microwave Generation by Compact Linear Transformer Driver Technology.” Generating high-power microwaves for directed energy from compact and efficient generators is crucial to a wide range…
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Intense laser experiments provide first evidence that light can stop electrons
By hitting electrons with an ultra-intense laser, researchers have stopped them as effectively shooting them at a sheet of lead, demonstrating what’s called “radiation reaction.”