Plasma Physics news

How do free electrons originate?

Physics / Plasma Physics

Jan 20, 2010 | 4.6 / 5 (13) | 1 |

Scientists at Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching and Greifswald and Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany, have discovered a new way in which high-energy radiation in water can release slow electrons. ...

Jetting into the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

Jan 15, 2010 | 4.8 / 5 (18) | 9 |

After the quark-gluon plasma filled the universe for a few millionths of a second after the big bang, it was over 13 billion years until experimenters managed to recreate the extraordinarily hot, dense medium ...

Scientists Generate Black Hole Radiation in the Lab

Physics / Plasma Physics

Dec 07, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (33) | 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Due to their violent nature and long distance from Earth, black holes and their surroundings are very difficult to study. Currently, the main method to observe a black hole is to use an X-ray ...

INL scientist is harnessing the power of plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

Oct 27, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (14) | 5

Most schoolchildren learn that everything in the universe is a solid, a liquid or a gas. But those lessons miss the fourth and by far most common state of matter: plasma.

On the road to fusion energy, an accelerator to study warm dense matter

Physics / Plasma Physics

Oct 16, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (10) | 2

Imagine yourself at the core of Jupiter, a planet 300 times the mass of Earth. At 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit, you and I might think it's hot in here, but to a physicist it's merely warm - warm dense matter, ...

Going plasmonic in search of faster computing, communications

Physics / Plasma Physics

Oct 16, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic ...

U.S. ITER awards contracts worth $33 million for materials for ITER's largest magnets

Physics / Plasma Physics

Oct 05, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded two contracts totaling $33.6 million for 8,270 km of niobium tin strand and 4,795 km of copper strand for the Toroidal Field Conductor, ...

Going With the Flow: Using Star Power to Better Understand Fusion

Physics / Plasma Physics

Sep 11, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego researchers are using “star” power to help ignite the field of fusion, which is being looked at as a future reliable green energy source. Under a new $5.8 million five-year grant ...

High in Sodium: Highly Charged Tungsten Ions May Diagnose Fusion Energy Reactors

Physics / Plasma Physics

Sep 08, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as health-food manufacturers work on developing the best possible sodium substitutes for low-salt diets, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have acquired ...

Researcher uses 100,000 degree heat to study plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

Sep 02, 2009 | 2 / 5 (1) | 1

Using one of the greatest sources of radiation energy created by man, University of Nevada, Reno researcher and faculty member Roberto Mancini is studying ultra-high temperature and non-equilibrium plasmas ...

Signs of ideal surfing conditions spotted in ocean of solar wind

Physics / Plasma Physics

Aug 31, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Warwick have found what could be the signal of ideal wave "surfing" conditions for individual particles within the massive turbulent ocean of the solar wind. The discovery ...

Cool plasma packs heat against biofilms

Physics / Plasma Physics

Jun 11, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 9

Though it looks like a tiny purple blowtorch, a pencil-sized plume of plasma on the tip of a small probe remains at room temperature as it swiftly dismantles tough bacterial colonies deep inside a human tooth. But it's not ...

Scientists Control Plasma Bullets

Physics / Plasma Physics

Feb 27, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (30) | 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- On the nanoscale, things aren’t always what they seem. What first looked like a continuous plasma jet has turned out to be a train of tiny, high-velocity plasma bullets. Using a camera with ...

Ultracold gas mimics ultrahot plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

Feb 15, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 13

Several years after Duke University researchers announced spectacular behavior of a low density ultracold gas cloud, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed strikingly similar properties in a very hot ...

New plasma transistor could create sharper displays

Physics / Plasma Physics

Feb 04, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (9) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- By integrating a solid-state electron emitter and a microcavity plasma device, researchers at the University of Illinois have created a plasma transistor that could be used to make lighter, ...

Swarming starlings help probe plasma, crowds and stock market

Physics / Plasma Physics

Aug 09, 2007 | 4.2 / 5 (13) | 0

Researchers at the University of Warwick’s Physics Department’s Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics have found a powerful technique that could be used to detect precisely when ordered patterns form in everything ...

Microscopic instrument aboard Air Force Academy satellite to study plasma bubbles

Physics / Plasma Physics

Mar 09, 2007 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md., in conjunction with scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the U.S. Air Force Academy, have developed ...

AFRL Proves Feasibility Of Plasma Actuators

Physics / Plasma Physics

Apr 24, 2006 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 0

The Air Force Research Laboratory is laying the groundwork to develop revolutionary hypersonic aerospace vehicles. AFRL is examining the feasibility of replacing traditional mechanical actuators, which move to control an ...