… The retirement of a leading figure in fusion energy research: Egbert Westerhof looks back on forty years in … on August 18, 2026 Forty years of working on nuclear fusion research: what’s that like? How has fusion research changed … FOM Rijnhuizen as a PhD student in 1983 after studying plasma astrophysics at Utrecht University. At that point, I …
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… engineering for Big Science: Pulsed laser deposition research cluster for energy materials DSPE Mikroniek, 5 … evolution reaction on hematite electrodes processed with He plasma irradiation Intern. J. of Hydrogen Energy 57 (2024) … of the magnetic exchange forces between the RuO 2 (110) surface and Fe tip ChemPhysChem (2022) e202200429 ( pdf , SI …
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… Our fusion energy research The worldwide energy transition from fossil fuels … confinement fusion science - group leader: Dr. Sven Wiesen Plasma Edge Physics and Diagnostics Investigating complex … diagnostics - group leader: Dr. Ivo Classen Plasma Material Interactions Solving the problem of exhausting huge heat …
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… Fusion research facility JET’s final tritium experiments yield new … A major milestone in the field of fusion science and engineering. Video file JET Record Pulse CV24-009 - 104522 … a design which uses powerful magnetic fields to confine a plasma in the shape of a doughnut. European collaboration …
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… triage for fusion Published on October 31, 2025 The L.INT research group headed by professor Chris Lee, Divertor … researchers at DIFFER, including Ivo Classen (group leader Plasma Edge Physics and Diagnostics). Chris focuses on … applied research, our students develop a broader view of engineering and physics. This enriches our education. They …
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… Materials, processes, and systems for future energy DIFFER's research was, is and will be focused on materials, … and optimally control those processes. Moreover, system engineering models, which account for functionality, … used to design our high-end instruments, integrate various plasma controllers, and derive supervisory controllers. …
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… DIFFER and TU/e to work on national X-ray lab for materials research Published on January 24, 2022 NWO research institute DIFFER and Eindhoven University of Technology will work together on a national facility for research with high-energy X-rays. For this type of research, …
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… First plasma and more in KEROGREEN project Published on October … This project is a stepping stone for DIFFER to develop a research plasma reactor into a more generic (turn-key) unit … be coupled to the plasma reactor. HyGear is working on the engineering of the oxygen separation module. The CO …
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… 2021 DIFFER has reached an important milestone: the linear plasma generator of Upgraded Pilot-PSI (UPP) is operational … plasma generator by at least an order of magnitude”, says research engineer Marc van de Pol. Marc van de Pol in front … interaction can alter the characteristics of the surface of the target material, which may have impact on the …
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… EUROfusion Engineering Grant 2024 for DIFFER researcher James Hargreaves Published on October 27, 2023 … to cracking due to fatigue. Thomas Morgan, group leader 'Plasma Material Interactions' at DIFFER and one of Hargreaves' supervisors: … DIFFER researcher James Hargreaves is one of the 16 winners of a …
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… Living and breathing energy research Published on June 08, 2020 At the end of his tenure … a director of the DIFFER institute for fundamental energy research. With the Dutch climate agreement building up steam … the real time capturing of emission lines of the fusion plasma. That technique is now used to monitor biological …
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… talent: EUROfusion grants for two DIFFER postdoctoral researchers Published on December 08, 2025 Two postdoctoral … of DIFFER have been awarded a EUROfusion grant. With the Engineering Grant (EEG), Maria Morbey will work on some of … project called ‘Influence of synergistic proton and plasma loading on retention in tungsten’. Morbey aims to …
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… energy DIFFER, the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, works on a future in which clean energy will be … world. DIFFER’s mission is to perform leading fundamental research on materials, processes, and systems for a global … three main fields: materials science, electrochemistry, and plasma chemistry. The researchers investigate the materials, …
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… Atmospheric plasma creates competitive moisture resistant foil Published … 2015 In the journal Plasma Processes and Polymers, plasma researcher Sergey Starostin and his colleagues at Fujifilm Research and DIFFER demonstrate the viability of a new … In the journal Plasma Processes and Polymers, plasma researcher Sergey Starostin and his colleagues at Fujifilm …
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… the wall, as otherwise, the reactor wall would be damaged. Researchers from the Dutch institute DIFFER and the EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center have developed a strict measurement and … techniques, that is what makes it unique. Our systems engineering approach can be applied to other fusion …
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