Universal Plasma Focus Laboratory Facility

Institute for Plasma Focus Studies

To promote the understanding of Plasma Focus Devices

Using numerical experiments based on the Lee Model

in association with

Abdus Salam ICTP/OEA AAAPT INTI-IU NTU-NIE Plasma Radiation Sources Lab UM Plasma Research Lab UTM

Courses: UNU / ICTP PFF Network Downloads:

IPFS-IBC1 Completed Lee model Description Code

IPFS-IBC-DIY On-going

IPFS-IBC2 Completed IPFS 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Papers

Ankara NURER 2010 I: 15April to 11 May II: 5 & 6 July Completed Important Papers Dimensions & Lifetime of Plasma Focus

Kansas State U 24 May-8 June 2010 Completed Theses

ICTP-IAEA PFNE 2010 15-26 November 2010- Download Course Content Completed Templates

RCWS 2011 20-30June2011 Download materials Completed S Lee Selections of Papers

ISMFA2011 WS 9-16 September 2011 Download materials Completed S H Saw Selections of Papers

ICTP School 2012 8-12 October 2012 Numerical Experiments with Bora Completed

NEWPF (ICPSA 2013) 4-6 December 2013, (details to be announced by ICPSA 2013)

Exciting Developments: 6 Phase Lee Model code- DPF with anomalous resistances Neutron Saturation Explained Modelling Scaling Laws: SXR Neutrons Ion Beams

Numerical Experiments with: Current-Step Plasma Focus Radiative Collapse DPF

Research Projects Rationale of IPFS

Completed Conferences 2008-2011

IPFS Conference- The Plasma Focus-Enhancing Knowledge and Application Potentials- 29 Mar-1^st April 2012- Bangkok, Thailand- completed

SPFE 2012 Seminar on Plasma Focus Experiments SPFE 2012, 12 July 2012- INTI International University, Nilai, Malaysia-contact- sorheoh.saw@newinti.edu.my- completed

IWPSA 2012 International Workshop on Plasma Science & Applications- 4-5 October 2012- Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand- rmongkolnavin@gmail.com -completed

AAAPT 5^th General Meeting (with election of new Council) – 5 October 4 pm-Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand:- contact: rajdeep.rawat@nie.edu.sg - completed

School and training course on DENSE MAGNETIZED PLASMA as a source of ionizing radiations, their diagnostics and applications- 8-12 Oct 2012 ICTP, Trieste, Italy- completed

8^th Siam Physics Congress (SPC-2013)- 21-23 March 2013- Chiangmai, Thailand- Completed

Second Research Coordination Meeting of CRP on Investigations of Materials ..Intense Fusion Pulses-10-13 June 2013, Singapore & Malaysia- contact: R.Kamendje@iaea.org

International Symposium on Plasma Focus (ISPF2013 in series SPFE 2013), INTI International University- contact: sorheoh.saw@newinti.edu.my

International Conference on Plasma Science & Applications (ICPSA 2013; 6^th in AAAPT series) ) 4-6 December 2013- NTU NIE-AAAPT, Singapore

Numerical Experiments Workshop on Plasma Focus (NEWPF) –an activity of ICPSA 2013, details pending on ICPSA 2013, Singapore

Current waveforms of plasma focus machines from sub-kJ to multi-MJ- fitting measured to computed

PF400 0.4kJ-Chilean NX2 3kJ-Singapore