Research, teaching and public engagement in Physics at UW–Madison
Professor Tiancheng Song has been selected for an Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award by the U.S. Department of Energy. Established in 2010, this prestigious program aims to support outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulate cutting-edge research. This award will fund the Song Lab’s work on exploring novel superconductors based on two-dimensional (2D) …
If net-positive fusion energy is to ever be achieved, density is key: the more atomic nuclei crashing into each other the more efficient the reaction will be. Nearly 40 years ago, Martin Greenwald identified a density limit above which tokamak plasmas become unstable, and the so-called Greenwald limit has at best been exceeded by a …
A fusion device at the University of Wisconsin–Madison generated plasma for the first time Monday, opening a door to making the highly anticipated, carbon-free energy source a reality. Over the past four years, a team of UW–Madison physicists and engineers has been constructing and testing the fusion energy device, known as WHAM (Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric …
This post was adapted from a U.S. Department of Energy announcement The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced August 23 that it is funding $9.96M to support research in basic plasma science and engineering as well as frontier plasma science experiments at several midscale DOE Collaborative Research Facilities (CRFs) across the nation. The funding will go to …