In a First, LLNL Researchers Create Birefringent All-Glass Metasurface

LLNL researchers have adapted their novel metasurface process, which creates a thin layer on the surface of an optic, to create an all-glass metasurface with birefringence, or dual refraction, properties. This achievement could transform waveplate technology for high-power laser systems such as NIF.

Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy

LLNL Director Kim Budil discussed the Lab’s Dec. 5, 2022 achievement of ignition at NIF with the Council on Foreign Relations. The discussion is moderated by Carolyn Kissane, associate dean and clinical professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University.

LLNL Hosts HBCU Students, Faculty to Build New Pipeline of Talent

For the second consecutive year, LLNL hosted a group of student scholars and faculty members from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) on a recent five-day visit.

LLNL Experimental Physicist Awarded 2023 Fabre Prize

LLNL physicist Alex Zylstra has been awarded the 2023 Edouard Fabre Prize for his experimental leadership of the milestone “Hybrid-E” campaign that achieved fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).

Physicist Otto “Nino” Landen Receives Prestigious Edward Teller Award

Otto “Nino” Landen, a distinguished member of the technical staff and the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments group leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been awarded the 2023 Edward Teller Medal.

Two Lab Physicists Named SPIE Senior Members

LLNL’s Wren Carr and Peter DeVore have been elected as senior members of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

Understanding the Plasticity of Diamond for Improved Fusion Ignition

Alex Li, an LLNL summer student in the Computational Chemistry and Materials Science Summer Institute, recently led a study to investigate the evolution of plasticity in diamond.

Safety Society Honors NIF's Bruno Van Wonterghem

The American Society of Safety Professionals, San Francisco Chapter, has awarded Bruno Van Wonterghem, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) Operations manager, with the “Managers Who Get Safety” Award.