Overview of ASDEX upgrade results in view of ITER and DEMO

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Overview of ASDEX upgrade results in view of ITER and DEMO

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Conceptual design of ELM control coils for the TCABR tokamak

Progress in Pedestal and Edge Physics: Chapter 3 of the Special Issue: on the Path to Tokamak Burning Plasma Operation

Experimental investigation of the radial structure of energetic particle driven GAM in TCV

Numerical study of turbulent eddy self-interaction in tokamaks with low magnetic shear. Part II: Nonlinear simulations

Design of a novel plasma shape controller for the TCV tokamak

Simplified and Flexible Coils for Stellarators using Single-Stage Optimization

Resistively controlled primordial magnetic turbulence decay

Expulsion of runaway electrons using ECRH in the TCV tokamak

Nonlinear interaction of Alfvénic instabilities and turbulence via the modification of the equilibrium profiles

Performance review of the joints for the ITER poloidal field coils

Lessons learned after three years of SPIDER operation and the first MITICA integrated tests

Stellarator optimization for nested magnetic surfaces at finite β and toroidal current

Leidenfrost flows: instabilities and symmetry breakings