6 May 2013
With a unique addition, FOM institute DIFFER's plasma experiment Magnum-PSI has qualified itself to perform material tests for the international fusion project ITER. At the reactor exhaust, the ITER wall will be...
3 May 2013
With the international nuclear fusion reactor ITER, researchers want to tame the motor of the sun and stars as a clean source of energy on earth from 2020 onwards. ITER will be...
19 April 2013
Fusion researchers Thomas Morgan and Dmitry Moseev at DIFFER have won two of the prestigious European Fusion Researcher Fellowships, awarded every year by the European Fusion Development Agreement EFDA. With...
8 April 2013
On 8 April, Member of Parliament Mohammed Mohandis for the PvdA labour party visited DIFFER together with a delegation from NWO and FOM. The programme included a discussion about the organisation of fundamental...
20 March 2013
In the heart of photolithography machines for the production of computer chips are sensitive mirrors for extreme ultraviolet light (EUV). What is the best way to clean these mirrors, consisting of tens of...
19 March 2013
Researchers at the national research center for mathematics and computer science CWI and FOM Institute for fundamental energy research DIFFER have discovered that the Coriolis effect can help stabilise the plasma...
10 March 2013
Neutron damage to the tungsten wall material of future fusion reactors such as ITER can trap the precious fusion fuel tritium. Research by PhD student Rianne 't Hoen at FOM Institute DIFFER now indicates that at...
5 march 2013
A fluorescent light, or a nearly bisected grape in a microwave: ordinary equipment won't bring you much closer to a plasma. That is why DIFFER offers secondary school students the opportunity to experiment with a...
25 February 2013
In 2015, the DIFFER institute will move to a new laboratory building on the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology. After a European tender procedure, DIFFER's parent organisation FOM , the Foundation...
14 February 2013
The Dutch physics funding agency FOM has awarded dr. Jonathan Citrin of the FOM Institute DIFFER the fifth and last of its prestigious YES! Fellowships for Young Energy Scientists. Over the coming four years,...
