Papers and Presentations - 2021

November

• New Research Looks at Process of Magnetic Flux Generation in ICF Implosions

September

• NIF Featured in New Book Profiling Fusion Energy ‘Star Builders’

• How Tantalum Behaves at High Pressure and Temperature

July

• New Machine-Learning Tactic Sharpens NIF Shot Predictions

June

• Smashing Gold, Platinum with Finesse

• Research Achieves Slow and Fast Light in Plasma

• Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration with Deep Learning Benefits NIF

• Experiments Validate Possibility of Helium Rain in Jupiter, Saturn

• Research Describes Slow and Fast Light in Plasma

May

• Scientists Identify Key Trends in High-Energy-Density Mixing Layers

• Team Improves Polar Direct Drive Fusion Neutron Sources for NIF

April

• New Instrument Improves Refractive Index Measurements at High Pressure

March

• Turbulent ‘Intensity Islands’ Give Cone-Shaped Targets Relativistic Power

• Scientists Put Additive Manufactured Foams to the Test

February

• Study Reveals Cause of 3D Asymmetry in ICF Implosions

• Lab Team Uses Giant Lasers to Compress Iron Oxide, Revealing the Secret Interior of Rocky Exoplanets

• Lab Develops New Method for Probing Material Strength

• New Book Highlights Sol-Gel Processing’s Impact on Optics and Photonic Materials

January

• Experiments at NIF Probe Carbon at Record Pressures

• Researchers Develop X-Ray Source to Measure Extreme Temperatures at NIF