Papers and Presentations – 2016

December

• New Target Designs Provide Insights into NIF Implosions

November

• A Streamlined Approach to Aligning NIF’s Lasers

August

• NIF-Related Research Papers Published

July

• Could Capsule ‘Shims’ Enhance NIF Implosions?
• NIF Experiment Challenges Standard Ionization Models
• Measuring Instabilities in NIF Implosions at Peak Velocity
• ‘Contact Lenses’ for High-power Lasers

May

• New Insights into Glass Polishing
• Toward a High-Energy Laser-Plasma Optical System

April

• Two-Shock Experiments Tune Implosion Symmetry
• Researchers Examine Hydrogen Under High Pressure
• Nature Physics Paper Reviews NIF’s Progress Toward Ignition

March

• When Meteorites Create Diamonds
• Got Questions About NIF? Here Are the Answers

February

• Controlling Early Hot Electrons in NIF Implosions

January

• Visualizing High-energy Electrons in Fast-ignition Targets
• Nine Varieties of Nanoporous Gold on a Single Chip