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DIFFER is going to invest in new facilities for energy research and open these up to third parties more than ever. This is stated in the Strategy 2023 – 2028 which the institute presents today.

Two students from the Design Academy Eindhoven will spend the next few weeks transforming the gray six-meter-long and one-and-a-half-meter-wide tube of DIFFER's Ion Beam Facility into a true work of art. One side will have a cutaway like character with mainly purple and pink colors. Those colors are a reference to the colors of a plasma that is generated in the tube.

DIFFER postdoc Aaron Ho, together with former DIFFER Ph.D. student Luca Vialetto (now a postdoc in Germany at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), have won the Rutherford Plasma Physics Communication Prize 2023. They receive the award for the podcast-style videos on their YouTube channel Coffee Breakdown.

A Dutch consortium, led by national energy research institute DIFFER, will receive 4.7 million euros from NWO to build a facility that makes controlled layers of material. Through this facility, science and industry can explore materials for new catalysts and batteries. In doing so, they will accelerate the energy transition, helping to move society forward.

A Dutch-American team of researchers has discovered that the beam to suppress plasma instabilities in a nuclear fusion reactor becomes two to three times broader than calculated. This is a challenge, because such a spread-out beam is much weaker, and there isn't always extra energy to make a stronger beam. The researchers published their findings in the journal Nuclear Fusion.