Posted December 6, 2016

I am a PhD student based at the York Plasma Institute, supervised by Dr. Andrew Higginbotham, focussing on x-ray diffraction at the high pressures found in Inertial Confinement Fusion experiments...

Posted December 6, 2016

The plastic deformation of materials is generally governed by the generation and motion of dislocations through the crystal lattice. Microstructural features such as grain boundaries, precipitates and inclusions impede the...

Posted December 6, 2016

The ITER tokamak in France will be the first ever fusion device to deliver more power out than in! Quite like wood which continues to burn after we stop holding...

Posted December 6, 2016

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Posted December 6, 2016

Oxide-Dispersion Strengthen (ODS) steels could form the major structural components fusion reactors and will be exposed up to 600C with neutron damage levels of up to 200 displacements-per-atom. These steels...

Posted December 6, 2016

I am a PhD student under the supervision of Prof Ray Sharples at Durham University. I am studying the fast ions generated by neutral beam injection and radio frequency (RF)...

Posted December 6, 2016

Having completed an MPhys at the University of Manchester I am now studying for a PhD under the supervision of Prof Ray Sharples and Dr Roddy Vann. My project will...

Posted December 6, 2016

I am an experimental Ph.D. student at the University of York under Dr Chris Murphy. I am investigating the production of high energy X-ray sources, with particular view to applications....

Posted December 6, 2016

I am studying for a PhD at York University. My work involves the extreme shockwave studies for inertial fusion. Previously I studied an MPhys degree at the University of Manchester...

Posted December 6, 2016

I am studying a PhD at the University of Liverpool under the supervision of Dr Paul Bryant. My project is entitled “Complex Magnetised Plasmas” and is designed to investigate the...