MEMBERS
Focused on plasma science with 115 staff (including 28 researchers and professors, 27 ITA, 32 PhD students and 12 postdocs). They combine theoretical, experimental and numerical approaches for very different applications: fusion plasma by magnetic confinement, space plasmas and cold plasmas.
LPP has been selected to operate instruments in international high-level large-scale facilities as tokamaks or space missions. The cold plasmas with a strong potential for applications is for example at the origin of a start-up and responsible for an industrial Chair (POSEIDON).
Since its creation in 1988, LULI’s main activity has been the study of dense and hot plasmas created by intense lasers. Historically focused on inertial confinement fusion, LULI has broadened the spectrum of its interests over the years to laboratory astrophysics and very high intensity laser-matter interaction.
LULI offers state-of-art laser and experimental multi-beam facilities to the largest user community. LULI is developing research programs on radiation-produced plasmas and their applications.
Involves 35 staff in plasma science (12 researchers and professors, 11 ITA, 7 PhD students and 5 postdocs).
LOA is recognized as a research center for fundamental and applied physics in ultrafast laser-plasma science, with the mission to understand and reveal matter properties under strong excitation and at the shortest time or space scales.
Its activity covers a wide spectrum from academic research to industrial and societal applications. Among its success, LOA leads four running European ERC grants and participates to two EQUIPEX.
30 staff involved in plasma science (7 researchers and professors, 7 ITA, 11 PhD students and 5 post-docs).
Use of large-area, low-temperature plasma process for the fabrication of optoelectronic materials with applications in the fields of photovoltaics, electronics, sensors, and batteries through national and international collaborations.
Participates to the “Institut Photo-Voltaïque en Ile-de-France” (IPVF) supported by the PIA state programme and is responsible for the Industrial Chair (PISTOL).
Two teams dedicate their activity to plasma physics: one in hot magnetized plasmas, and one in laser generated plasmas. Both teams struggle to combine the theoretical modeling of fundamental processes to the development of novel numerical methods allowing multi-scale simulations. They also interact with experimentalists in the framework of national and international collaborations, in order to help in the interpretation of actual data and have longstanding collaborations with LOA, LPICM, LULI and LPP.
Ten researchers involving software engineers with a strong experience on fundamental fluid modeling of plasma flows from kinetic theory, asymptotic analysis, novel numerical methods for strongly multiscale problems, and high-performance computing on new architectures (Initiative HPC@Maths). Several PhD students and post-doctoral fellows in the field of plasma physics simulation.
Collaborations on different plasma applications are carried out with LPP and LPICM and the Aerospace Department at the von Karman Institute, and NASA’s Advanced Supercomputer division.
Owns a program simulating laser – plasma interactions for the production of fast electrons in collaboration with CPHT and LULI (1 researcher, 1 PhD student, 1 postdoc).