http://www.physorg.com/physics-news/plasma/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on physics of plasma In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and reliability are simultaneously obtained in tokamaks, the leading magnetic confinement fusion device, operating at their performance limits. Experiments designed to test these predictions have successfully demonstrated the interaction of these conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news176402578.html Physics - Plasma Physics Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:30:03 EST news176402578 Using Einstein's theory of special relativity to speedup computer simulations, scientists have designed laser-plasma accelerators with energies of 10 billion electron volts (GeV) and beyond. These systems, which have not been simulated in detail until now, could in the future serve as a compact new technology for particle colliders and energetic light sources. http://www.physorg.com/news176382250.html Physics - Plasma Physics Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:04:53 EST news176382250 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. http://www.physorg.com/news175855071.html Physics - Plasma Physics Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:39:39 EST news175855071 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, to be precise, stuff that hasn't quite undergone thermonuclear fusion yet. http://www.physorg.com/news174914869.html Physics - Plasma Physics Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:28:31 EST news174914869 (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 and optical signals can be handled simultaneously. http://www.physorg.com/news174907144.html Physics - Plasma Physics Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:21:05 EST news174907144 (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 new knowledge on a promising sodium alternative of their own. Sodium-like tungsten ions could pepper -- and conveniently monitor -- the hot plasma soup inside fusion energy devices, potential sources of abundant, clean power. http://www.physorg.com/news171650049.html Physics - Plasma Physics Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:35:05 EST news171650049 (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 could give a new insight into just how energy is dissipated in solar system sized plasmas such as the solar wind and could provide significant clues to scientists developing fusion power which relies on plasmas. http://www.physorg.com/news170947797.html Physics - Plasma Physics Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:30:59 EST news170947797 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 another futuristic product of George Lucas' imagination. It's the exciting work of USC School of Dentistry and Viterbi School of Engineering researchers looking for new ways to safely fight tenacious biofilm infections in patients - and it could revolutionize many facets of medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news163903949.html Physics - Plasma Physics Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:53:16 EST news163903949 (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 an exposure time of a few nanoseconds, researchers have further investigated the plasma bullets, and have even found a way to control them. http://www.physorg.com/news154951518.html Physics - Plasma Physics Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:07:38 EST news154951518 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 and dense plasma "fluid" created to simulate conditions when the universe was about one millionths of a second old. http://www.physorg.com/news153928950.html Physics - Plasma Physics Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:03:22 EST news153928950 (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, less expensive and higher resolution flat-panel displays. http://www.physorg.com/news152973325.html Physics - Plasma Physics Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:36:20 EST news152973325 University of British Columbia researchers have developed a technique that brings scientists a big step closer to unlocking the secrets of the most abundant form of matter in the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news146496972.html Physics - Plasma Physics Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:36:12 EST news146496972 Since their development in the 1940s, transistors have been at the heart of computers and other modern electronic devices. Transistors - whose job is to start, stop, or amplify electric current - come in all shapes, sizes and materials, depending on the application. Recently, scientists have fabricated a new variation: a micro-sized plasma transistor. http://www.physorg.com/news145705718.html Physics - Plasma Physics Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:48:38 EST news145705718 Flying saucers may soon be more fact than mere science fiction. University of Florida mechanical and aerospace engineering associate professor Subrata Roy has submitted a patent application for a circular, spinning aircraft design reminiscent of the spaceships seen in countless Hollywood films. Roy, however, calls his design a "wingless electromagnetic air vehicle," or WEAV. http://www.physorg.com/news132405698.html Physics - Plasma Physics Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:21:38 EST news132405698 A University of Michigan professor has taken a step toward simulating a type of matter found in the crusts of neutron stars, in the cores of gas giant planets, and in exotic plasmas thought to be present in the earliest universe. http://www.physorg.com/news129302578.html Physics - Plasma Physics Tue, 06 May 2008 14:22:58 EST news129302578 Streams of granular particles bouncing off a target in a simple tabletop experiment produce liquid-like behavior also witnessed in a massive research apparatus that simulates the birth of the universe. A team led by the University of Chicago's Sidney Nagel and Heinrich Jaeger report this surprising finding in the Oct. 27-Nov. 2 issue of Physical Review Letters. http://www.physorg.com/news113590164.html Physics - Plasma Physics Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:49:24 EST news113590164 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 from plasma in the solar wind and fusion reactors, to crowds of people, or flocks of birds. The technique could even be used to find unusual patterns in stock market behaviour. http://www.physorg.com/news105886375.html Physics - Plasma Physics Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:52:55 EST news105886375 A project by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has come one step closer to making fusion energy possible. http://www.physorg.com/news92671947.html Physics - Plasma Physics Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:12:27 EST news92671947