REPUBLIC OF KOREA - HANYANGU

APPLIED PLASMA LABORATORY
DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
HANYANG UNIVERSITY

17 Haengdang-dong, Sungdong-ku, Seoul

Telephone: +82 2 2290 0465
Telefax: +82 2 2299 1908
E-mail: kschung@hanyang.ac.kr

Co-ordinator:

Chung, Kyu-Sun

Plasma-Material Interaction Group

Chung, Kyu-Sun (Co-Leader)
Kim, Gon-Ho (Co-Leader)

Choi, Yong-Sup
Jung, Yong-Ho

Ko, Kwang-Cheol
You, Hyun-Jong

High Power Engineering Group

Ko, Kwang-Cheol (Co-Leader)
Kang, Hyung-Boo (Co-Leader)

Chung, Kyu-Sun
Joo, Hung-Jin

Shin, Young-Chul

Plasma-Wave Interaction Group

Lee, Hee-Jae (Leader)
Lee, Myung-Jae

Chung, Yong-Dae

Kim, Gon-Ho

Research activities:

I.

Plasma-Material Interaction Group

a.

Development of Probe Diagnostics

• Visco-Mach Probe, Visco-Ion-Mach Probe, Mach Probe, etc.; measure edge parameters such as flow velocity, viscosity, diffusivity, potentials, density and temperatures
• Plasma-Material Interaction Simulator (PMIS): Length = 135 cm, Diameter = 35 cm, Confinement = Permanent Magnet, n_e = 10⁹ : 10¹² cm^-3, T_e = 1-10 eV, T_i = 1 eV. Operating since 1990.

b.

Development of Transport/Probe Theories of the Scrape-Off Layer in Fusion Devices

• Divertor-Edge Plasma Simulator (DEPS): Length = 70 cm, Diameter = 20 cm, Confinement = Solenoid (B = 1 kG), Source = ICP, Helicon, ECR, LaB6. Operating since 1996.

c.

Characterization of Thermal Plasmas and Pulsed Corona Discharge

• Plasma Torch: DC + RF Hybrid, 10 kW, Diagnostic and Model Development
• Corona Discharge Reactor: 40 kV (DC:BASE) + 30 kV (2-3 kHz:ADD), SO_x and NO_x Removal.

d.

Characterization of Wake by using Emissive and Mach Probes

e.

Development of Various Plasma Sources such as Wire-Ion plasma source, Inductively Coupled plasma source, Large Helicon source, and Plasma Source Ion Implantation

II.

High Power Engineering Group

a.

Plasma Focus Device for Neutron/Isotope generation

• Cylinder type:
  Inner electrode radius: 0.8cm, Outer electrode radius: 3cm, Electrode length: 8cm, Gas pressure: 3 Torr, Charging voltage: 30kV, Peak current: approx. 200kA, Capacitance: 8 microF, Inductance: 2nH.

b.

Laser Diagnostics in Theta-Pinch device

c.

Laser Triggered Spark Gap/Pseudo-Spark Gap Switches study

d.

Bi-directional Pulse source

e.

Theories on High Field effect on the dielectric, Pulsed Corona discharge

f.

Electron/Ion Beam Accelerators

III.

Plasma-Wave Interaction Group

a.

Development of theories on the parametric instabilities, nonlinear wave interactions, instabilities in electron beams, and surface waves

b.

Development of theories on the cross-sections of high density plasmas