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Congratulations to Sascha Rienäcker for successfully defending his thesis titled “Impact of Magnetic Geometry on the Edge Radial Electric Field in Tokamaks” on March 9th, 2026. Abstract Mitigating plasma turbulence is a major objective of magnetic...

Relativistic feedback discharge processes are believed to be responsible for intense gamma-ray flashes produced in atmospheric thunderstorms. These phenomena occur over length scales of several hundred meters and could not previously be reproduced in the...

Measurements of absolute atomic oxygen density and reduced electric field are crucial for the understanding and development of plasma-based technologies. Probing them, however, usually requires active methods that are either perturbative or highly costly...

During type III solar radio bursts, electromagnetic waves are radiated at the plasma frequency ωp and its harmonics by electrostatic wave turbulence generated by electron beams ejected from the Sun in solar wind and coronal plasmas. These emissions...

PLASMAScience Graduate School is excited to announce the launch of the third edition of the PLASMAScience Summer School, dedicated to laser-plasma interactions. It will be held on Porquerolles Island, France, from June 21 to 27, 2026. The Summer School is...

The cross-section of tokamak plasmas is usually non-circular; the plasma column tends to be vertically elongated and "D"-shaped. The shaping parameter that characterizes the "D"-ness is called triangularity. In recent years, the exotic negative...

Despite its modest size, Enceladus exerts a colossal electromagnetic influence on Saturn’s environment. An international study led by researchers from the Laboratory of Plasma Physics (LPP) reveals that this moon acts as a giant planetary-scale Alfvén...

In their two-part tutorial review published in Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Svetlana Starikovskaia, Victor Lafaurie, Jean-Baptiste Perrin-Terrin (EM2C), and Christophe Laux (EM2C) present a comprehensive overview of plasma-assisted combustion...

Iodine is an emerging alternative propellant for high-performance electric propulsion systems and has also been proposed as a novel feed gas for the dry etching of III-V semiconductor materials. An international team, including several researchers from...

By allowing plasmas to exchange their magnetic connectivity, the process of magnetic reconnection enables the sudden release of magnetic energy in the form of accelerated particles and fast, heated flows. For more than half a century, reconnection has...

The Sun constantly emits a stream of charged particles, known as solar wind. Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, experiences solar winds and storms more than 10 times more powerful than those experienced by Earth, which is located 1 astronomical unit...

Congratulations to Anatole Berger who successfully defended his PhD "On the use of moment methods for modeling low-temperature plasmas in the low and intermediate pressure regime" on December 2025. Summary : Low-temperature plasmas are used in many...