JAPAN - OSU

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
OSAKA UNIVERSITY

2-1, Yamada-oka, Suita city, Osaka, 565-0871

Plasma Physics Laboratory

Telephone: +81 6 6879 7915
Telefax: +81 6 6879 7916
E-mail: okada@ppl.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Goto, Seiichi (Director)
Inomoto, Michiaki
Iwasawa, Naotaka

Kitano, Katsuhisa
Ohi, Shoichi
Okada, Shigefumi

Okuba, Mamoru
Sugimoto, Satoshi
Yoshimura, Satoru

Research activities:
Studies of properties and confinement improvement of a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasma are carried out on the FRC Injection Experiment (FIX). The theta pinch-produced FRC plasma is translated into a 3 m long, 0.8 m diameter metal chamber to attain a configuration life time of 0.5 ms with T_e + T_i ≈ 200 eV and n ≈ 5 x 10¹⁹m^-3, into which neutral beam is injected.

Department of Electronic, Information Systems, and Energy Engineering
Course of Electro-magnetic Engineering

Telephone: +81 6 879 7234
Telefax: +81 6 879 7235
E-mail: nisikawa@ppl.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Laser Engineering

Tanaka, Kazuo (Leader)

Kanabe, Tadashi

Research activities:
Using ultra-intense laser systems with laser intensities exceeding 10²⁰ W/cm², a new concept for inertial fusion energy ``fast ignition'' is intensively studied. Using large laser facilities, matter state under extreme pressure up to 100 Mbar is studied with use of strong laser induced shock waves. Next generation of highly efficient laser systems is developed.

Supra-high Temperature Engineering

Nishikawa, Masahiro (Leader)

Ohtsuka, Yusuke

Ueda, Yoshio

Research activities:
Plasma/particle-wall/surface interaction studies are carried out with the High Flux Irradiation Test device (HiFIT), which is an ECR plasma based ion source with the irradiation flux up to 3.5 x 10²¹ H/m²s (3 keV H₃⁺). Studies of new first wall concepts such as a pebble drop divertor system are also carried out.

Electro-magnetic Fluids Engineering

Horiike, Hiroshi (Leader)

Inoue, Shoji

Miyamoto, Seiji

Research activities:
Magnetohydrodynamics of plasmas and liquid metals are studied. Numerical analysis of high temperature tokamak plasma, experiments on the behaviour of low temperature plasma in magnetic multipole configuration and of liquid metal flow under magnetic field are their current topics.

Fusion Engineering

Iida, Toshiyuki (Leader)

Sakabe, Shuji

Sato, Fuminobu

Research activities:
Fourteen MeV neutron effects on various materials and components are studied for development of a fusion reactor. Also new applications of submicro ion and atom cluster beams and ultra-intense femtosecond laser are under investigation.