Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Information

The Institute is one of the 55 research institutes of Czech Academy of Sciences. It conducts research in the following fields: - Non-inductive current drive and heating in tokamaks by lower hybrid waves - Edge plasma turbulence in tokamaks - Plasma diagnostics - High current capillary discharge - Generation of shock waves by a plasma discharge in water - Generation of chemically active non-equilibrium plasma in gases at atmospheric pressure and in liquids - Generation of equilibrium water-stabilised arc discharges - Interaction of thermal plasma with materials: plasma spraying and waste treatment - Materials research connected with plasma technologies - Generation of hot dense plasma by a sub-nanosecond iodine laser - Laser plasma as a source of intense coherent and non-coherent x-ray radiation and of multicharged ions - Special optics and optomechanical systems, state-of-the-art precision, including consulting, advisory and expertise services, simulations, analysis, application research, precise manufacturing, prototyping and measurements. Since 1999 the Institute has been coordinating Czech participation in the EURATOM S&T programme in fusion (Association EURATOM/IPP.CR)