Plasma Technology (United States)

Laboratory Measurements of Energy Partitioning and Anomalous Electron Heating in Magnetized, Perpendicular Collisionless Shocks

Abstract We present laboratory results on energy partitioning from supercritical, magnetized collisionless shock experiments ( M A ∼ 8, M ms ∼ 4). We report the first observation of fully developed laboratory shocks that evolve for more than seven upstream ion gyroperiods and hav...

Design and Commissioning of a Deuterium-Tritium Gas Delivery System for Muon-Catalyzed Fusion in a Diamond Anvil Cell

We report the design, commissioning, and operation of deuterium-deuterium (DD) and deuterium-tritium (DT) gas delivery systems developed to load a diamond anvil cell (DAC) beam target for muon-catalyzed fusion (µCF). The DAC approach enables DT fuel to be compressed to gigapascal...

Upscaling strategies for atmospheric‑pressure plasma treatment of recycled PET flakes for particleboard adhesion

The intrinsically poor adhesion between recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) flakes and wood particles limits their use in particleboard manufacturing. This study investigates atmospheric‑pressure plasma activation as a scalable approach to enhance interfacial adhesion in PE...