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PUFFIN

Studying Fundamental Plasma Phenomena Using Pulsed Power

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November 18, 2024

With a flash and some sparks, PUFFIN achieves first plasma! After four years of design, fabrication, assembly and commissioning came to an end: last week we fired our first shot...

October 17, 2024

We had a great time in Atlanta GA for this year's APS DPP, presenting talks and posters on our research Here are the titles of our presentations for this year, and you can find...

July 26, 2024

We offer our heartfelt congratulations to Dr Rishabh Datta, who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Radiatively Cooled Magnetic Reconnection Experiments Driven by Pulsed...

July 7, 2024

We’re back from two weeks of experiments on the COBRA pulsed-power generator at Cornell University Graduate student Rishabh Datta wrote a proposal which was funded through...

May 22, 2024

In January 2025, the PUFFIN group is moving from the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT to the Laboratory for Plasma Studies at Cornell Jack is joining the faculty at the...

May 1, 2024

Our PRL was an Editors' Suggestion, and was featured prominently on the home page of...

April 23, 2024

Jack, Rishabh, and Lansing travelled to Albuquerque NM to carry out the fourth Magnetic Reconnection on Z (MARZ) shot We fielded new diagnostics including laser imaging and...

April 15, 2024

In April, Jack first travelled to Rochester for the NSF ECLIPSE (Ecosystem for Collaborative Leadership and Inclusive Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering) meeting, which...

December 2, 2023

Jack has received the NSF CAREER award, the "National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic...