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Our research interests

The breadth and scope of research in our field is well illustrated in the report of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA Plasma Science: Advancing Knowledge in the National Interest. Our research covers all areas of Plasma Science and Engineering: Low Temperature Plasma Science and Engineering, Basica Plasma Science, The Plasma Science of Magnetic Fusion, Plasma Physics at High Energy Density, Space and Astrophysical Plasmas, with a broad methodological approach ranging from theory and simulations to experiments, from fundamental science to engineering.

The research of the faculty members of the Scientific Area of Plasmas, Lasers and Nuclear Fusion is developed in the Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion at IST. In the website of IPFN you can learn about the many different projects developed at IST in this field. You can browse through the research interests of our faculty members in the faculty webpage and in the individual webpages of the faculty members. Some of the most recent publications of the faculty members are highlighted below. You can also check the news section to learn about the exciting developments pioneered by the faculty members of the the Scientific Area of Plasmas, Lasers and Nuclear Fusion.

Recent Publications

[view all publications in 2017 - 2019]
  • The LisbOn KInetics Boltzmann solver (2019) DOI
  • Oxygen atom kinetics in CO2 plasmas ignited in a DC glow discharge (2019) DOI
  • Oxygen (3P) atom recombination on a Pyrex surface in an O2 plasma (2019) DOI
  • A rotational Raman study under non-thermal conditions in pulsed CO2–N2 and CO2–O2 glow discharges (2019) DOI
  • Kinetic mechanisms in air plasmas (2019) DOI
  • Computed stereo lensless X-ray imaging (2019) DOI
  • Cleaning of the Eddy Current Effects From Magnetic Diagnostics (2019) DOI
  • Geodesic acoustic mode evolution in L-mode approaching the L–H transition on JET (2019) DOI
  • Simultaneous measurement of pulse front tilt and pulse duration with a double trace autocorrelator (2019) DOI
  • Radiation emission in laser-wakefields driven by structured laser pulses with orbital angular momentum (2019) DOI
  • Linear theory of electron-plasma waves at arbitrary collisionality (2019) DOI
  • Numerical Study of Inertial Kinetic-Alfvén Turbulence (2019) DOI
  • FPGA Code for the Data Acquisition and Real-Time Processing Prototype of the ITER Radial Neutron Camera (2019) DOI
  • Real-Time Data Compression for Data Acquisition Systems Applied to the ITER Radial Neutron Camera (2019) DOI
  • The Design and Performance of the Real-Time Software Architecture for the ITER Radial Neutron Camera (2019) DOI
  • Linux device driver for Radial Neutron Camera in view of ITER long pulses with variable data throughput (2019) DOI
  • Thermo-structural analyses of the in-vessel components of the ITER collective Thomson scattering system (2019) DOI
  • Spontaneous generation of phononic entanglement in quantum dark-soliton qubits (2019) DOI
  • Electron trapping in freely expanding ultracold neutral plasmas (2019) DOI
  • Extremely intense laser-based electron acceleration in a plasma channel (2018) DOI