Plasma Physics Research Centers and Laboratories

Plasma Laboratories

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - http://www.llnl.gov/
Operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Los Alamos National Laboratory - http://www.lanl.gov/
Operated by the University of California for the US Department of Energy.

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory - http://www.pppl.gov/
United States Department of Energy facility devoted to plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion research.

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center - http://www.psfc.mit.edu
One of the leading university research laboratories in the physics and engineering aspects of magnetic confinement fusion and home of the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, Levitated Dipole Experiment and other plasma and fusion related research projects.

Intense Energy Beam Laboratory, University of Michigan - http://www-ners.engin.umich.edu/labs/plasma/
Investigates the fundamental physics and technology of interactions between beams of electrons, ions, plasma, microwaves, laser light and radio frequency radiation with plasmas, materials, structures, and biological cells.

Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division - http://wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/
Conducts a broad experimental and theoretical program in basic and applied research in plasma physics, laboratory discharge and space plasmas, intense electron and ion beams and photon sources, atomic physics, pulsed power sources, laser physics, advanced spectral diagnostics, and nonlinear systems.

Weizmann Institute of Science, Plasma Laboratory - http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/index.html
Research focused on plasma applications and technology. Israel.

Electron Beam Ion Trap Facility at NIST - http://physics.nist.gov/MajResFac/EBIT/ebit.html
The electron beam ion trap (EBIT) facility at NIST uses a tightly focused and energy-tunable electron beam to create, trap, and probe highly charged ions.

Los Alamos National Laboratory - MFE Experiments - http://wsx.lanl.gov
Magnetic fusion experimental team in the P-24 Plasma Physics Group at Los Alamos. Details of collaborations with experiments at other facilities.

Culham Science Center - http://www.fusion.org.uk/
Research into Fusion Power. The EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association works at the Culham Science Centre, in Oxfordshire, UK, towards the realisation of Fusion Power.

Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory - http://alfven.princeton.edu/
Research in electric propulsion, plasma thrusters and fundamental problems in plasma physics. Princeton University.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fusion Energy Division - http://www.ornl.gov/sci/fed/
The ORNL Fusion Energy Division conducts research in plasma theory, technology and experimental collaborations.

Imperial College Plasma Physics Group - http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research/plasma/
University group in plasma physics research engaged both experimentally and theoretically in a number of programmes including fundamental plasma physics, acceleration of particles using plasma waves and thermonuclear fusion. London, UK.

High Energy Density Physics Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - http://www-phys.llnl.gov/Organization/VDivision/
High-energy-density physics and astrophysics research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Alfvén Laboratory - http://www.alfvenlab.kth.se/
Researching electromagnetic theory and applications, including fusion, space and basic plasma physics experiments. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Auburn University Plasma Physics - http://www.physics.auburn.edu/~plasma/
Plasma physics home page at Auburn University with links to Space Plasma Laboratory, Fusion Research laboratory, and Plasma Sciences Laboratory.

Complex Plasma Laboratory - http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/plasma/complex/index.html
Research on complex plasma (dusty plasma, colloidal plasma, plasma crystal) at the University of Sydney.

Plasma Engineering Laboratory at Northeastern University - http://www.ece.neu.edu/edsnu/hopwood/lab.html
The Plasma Engineering Lab focuses on the design and characterization of low-temperature plasmas and microplasmas for industrial processes and sensors.

Laboratory for Plasma Physics - http://fusion.rma.ac.be/
Laboratory is the part of the integrated European thermonuclear fusion research program. ERM/KMS Royal Military Academy, Belgium.

Australian National University Plasma Research Laboratory - http://rsphysse.anu.edu.au/prl/
Australian National University facility studying magnetic confinement in toroidal systems and open systems with applications to space phenomena and advanced plasma processing.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Plasma Dynamics Laboratory - http://hibp.ecse.rpi.edu/
Facility devoted to research in plasma engineering and electromagnetics. Troy, New York.

Dublin City University Plasma Research Laboratory - http://www.prl.dcu.ie/
Research on radiofrequency plasmas with applications in microelectronics, lighting, surface engineering, and the development of advanced materials. Dublin, Ireland.

Laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique - http://www.lpmi.polytechnique.fr
Studying instabilities, transport and turbulence in tokamaks, low pressure discharges and high energy density plasmas.

Plasma Sciences Laboratory - http://narn.physics.auburn.edu/
Auburn University facility studying dusty plasmas, linear instability and planetary ring simulations.

University of Malaya Plasma Physics Laboratory - http://fizik.um.edu.my/plasma/
Laboratory devoted to general plasma research.

Laboratory of Plasma Accelerator Physics - Belarus Academy of Science - http://imaph.bas-net.by/imaph/lpap/LPAPh.htm
Research of quasi-stationary high current accelerators (plasma guns) and the corersponding flows and material interaction.

University of Bari - Plasma Laboratory - http://www.chimica.uniba.it/plasmalab/
Fundamental and applied research focused on plasma science and materials. Bari, Italy.

Los Alamos Neutron Science Center - http://www.lanl.gov/source/organization/profiles/lansce_profile.shtml
LANSCE is a pulsed spallation neutron source facility that includes the Neutron Scattering Center, the Weapons Neutron Research facility, the world's most powerful proton linear accelerator, and the proton storage ring. Los Alamos, USA.

Institute for Plasma Research Radio Frequency Group, - http://agrajit.netfirms.com/rf_home.html
Plasma research on non-inductive heating using RF for ICRH, ECRH, and LHCD. Based in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.

Applied Spectroscopy Laser Laboratory, University of Indonesia - http://www.geocities.com/spectrochemical/project.html
A few plasma projects in the laboratory, including that on shock wave plasma mechanisms.

Redmond Plasma Physics Laboratory - http://depts.washington.edu/rppl/
University of Washington facility with a field reversed configuration (FRC) experiment.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - http://web.mit.edu/physics/research/areasofresearch/atomic_physics/plasma_physics.html
Department of Physics, the host of the Alcator C-Mod tokamak experiment.

Columbia University Plasma Physics Lab - http://www.apam.columbia.edu/apam/plasma/plasmaintro.html
Experimental plasma physics facility, with HBT-EP tokamak, Columbia Non-Neutral Torus (CNT), Collisionless Terrella Experiment (CTX) and Columbia Linear Machine (CLM). New York.

University of Texas at Dallas Plasma Applications Laboratory - http://www.utdallas.edu/~overzet/PALab.html
Research of plasmas used in semiconductor processing. University of Texas at Dallas, USA.

Large Plasma Device (LAPD) Laboratory - http://128.97.43.7/lapd/
UCLA facility conducting basic plasma physics research on the behavior of naturally occurring plasmas, such as the auroral ionosphere, the magnetosphere, the solar wind, the solar corona, and the interstellar medium.