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Plasma Potential Control in a Magnetized Plasma Column Using a Thermionic Cathode

The ability to drive the plasma potential in a magnetized plasma column using strongly negatively biased emissive cathode is experimentally demonstrated. By analysing an extensive experimental dataset, and in particular the evolution of the radial profiles ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Modelling of energetic particle drive and damping effects on TAEs in AUG experiment with ECCD

Alexander Karpushov

The impact of electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD)-driven current on toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) in experiments on the AUG tokamak is investigated numerically. The dynamical evolution of the plasma profiles and equilibria are modelled w ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Control upgrade for the TCV coils power supplies

Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Nicolas Cherix

The Tokamak a` Configuration Variable (TCV) coil converters are fed, during the plasma pulse, by a flywheel generator (FG) providing the AC voltages few seconds before the plasma pulse. The synchronization with the 120 Hz frequency delivered by the FG, var ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Development of next-generation microfluidic systems for enhanced, faster, and cost-effective immunoassays for tissue diagnostics - Ac electrothermal flow & Acoustofluidics

Muaz Salama Abdelmonem Draz

The application of microfluidics in the field of surface-based assays and more specifically, the spatial molecular profiling of tumor tissues has gained a lot of interest, especially with the increased interest in personalized medicine and targeted therapy ...

EPFL2023

New insights on divertor parallel flows,E x B drifts, and fluctuations from in situ, two-dimensional probe measurement in the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Artur Perek, Hugo De Oliveira, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno

In situ, two-dimensional (2D) Langmuir probe measurements across a large part of the TCV outer divertor are reported in L-mode discharges with and without divertor baffles. This provides detailed insights into time averaged profiles, particle fluxes, and f ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

X-point radiation, its control and an ELM suppressed radiating regime at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

Marco Wischmeier

Future fusion reactors require a safe, steady state divertor operation. The required detached operation is, in tokamaks with metal walls, usually achieved by seeding of impurities, such as nitrogen. With strong seeding levels, the dominant radiation is emi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Understanding the turbulent mechanisms setting the density decay length in the tokamak scrape-off layer

Paolo Ricci, Carrie Fiona Beadle

Mechanisms setting the density decay in the scrape-off layer (SOL) at the outer midplane of a tokamak plasma are disentangled using two-fluid numerical simulations in a double-null magnetic configuration and analytical estimates. Typical experimental obser ...

Cambridge University Press2020

A new test method of AC loss assessment for fusion conductors

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Kamil Sedlák

The coupling currents loss for fusion conductors is frequently assessed applying a sinusoidal field sweep of fixed, small amplitude and variable frequency. From the initial slope of the loss curve, the coupling loss time constant is derived and applied in ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Stellarator nonlinearly saturated periodicity-breaking ideal magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium states

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Jonathan Graves, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Andreas Kleiner, Madhusudan Raghunathan

The relaxation of the constraint of periodicity imposed by the external confining magnetic field coils in a nominally 4-field period Helias Advanced Stellarator configuration produces weak periodicity-breaking deformations of the plasma. The corrugations a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Plasma breakdown and current formation in single core and doublet configurations on TCV

Joyeeta Sinha

This thesis presents an experimental investigation of the plasma formation in the TCV tokamak. The primary goal of this work was to program a reliable and smooth plasma formation at several positions within the TCV vessel and then use the gained understand ...

EPFL2017

HTS high current cable for fusion application

Nikolay Bykovskiy

State-of-the-art magnets of fusion devices, which are based on low temperature superconductors (LTS), have almost reached their technological limits in terms of generated magnetic fields. Further progress can be made using novel high temperature supercondu ...

EPFL2017