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Virtual Pressroom 2020

62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

November 9-13, 2020 | Fully Virtual

The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. APS represents over 55,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world.

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Latest Press Releases

	Plasma-Based Technology to Fight COVID-19 From plasma-created nanoparticles to plasma-driven ultraviolet lights, plasma-based technology is on its way to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. READ MORE
	Fire and Ice: How to Keep Fusion from Melting Metal Devices Disruption mitigation had a grim outlook for preventing surface melting in future fusion devices, but scientists are giving it a second look due to new and improved methods and analysis. READ MORE
	Keeping it Cool in all the Right Places is Key for Fusion Energy New DIII-D research shows how to maintain a hot plasma core with a cool exterior. READ MORE
	The Astonishing Behavior of Materials in Extreme Conditions Experiments with plasma under ultrahigh pressures discover unexpected silicon phases, metallic deuterium, and 400-times-stronger lead. READ MORE
	Taming Fusion Plasmas with Ice Cubes and Diamond Shells Research at DIII-D is exploring multiple uses for injecting pellets into fusion tokamaks. READ MORE
	Novel Platform Advances Understanding of How Reconnection Creates Solar Flares The findings illuminate the source of incredibly hot particles that can impact the Earth. READ MORE
	Supercomputers and Wall Coatings: The Road to Better Plasma Confinement Reduced turbulence and instability demonstrated on the world’s most advanced stellarator. READ MORE
	Plasma Science Joins the Fight Against Germs Advances in room temperature plasmas provide a pathway for alternative approaches to killing or inactivating bacteria and viruses. READ MORE
	Radiation Therapy for Fusion Plasmas and a Major Puzzle Solved New findings advance the use of radio waves to stabilize plasmas and track RF trajectories. READ MORE
	Parker Solar Probe: A Window Into Our Sun Early results reveal how large-scale magnetic structures govern the young solar wind and why plasma instabilities affect heat transfer around the sun. READ MORE
	Scientists on Track to Build First Experiment to Create and Confine a Plasma That Produces Net Fusion Power Physics basis for the SPARC high-field tokamak is firmly established. READ MORE
	Turbulent Relationship: Understanding the Mysterious Hydrogen “Isotope Effect” in Fusion Experiments New theoretical model accounts for the subtle, important role of tiny electrons in plasma turbulence. READ MORE