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New link with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

A new Memorandum of Understanding on research collaboration was signed in September 2015 between the Plasma Research Laboratory (home to the APFRF) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma...

20 October 2015

PRL research featured in International Innovation

A team from the Plasma Research Laboratory at the Australian National University has developed new optical instruments for studying plasma behaviour. The so-called coherence-imaging...

9 September 2015

Rising-star graduates from RSPE

It is possible to create a star on earth with a nuclear fusion device, with the H1-Heliac at the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering doing just this. The research...

19 August 2015

The 2015 Stjepan Marcelja Fellowships

The Department of of Applied Mathematics is delighted to announce the first recipients of the 2015 Marcelja Fellowships. The Marcelja Fellowship, named in honour of Stjepan Marcelja,...

12 June 2015

Test cricket Brad Haddin helps ANU bat researchers

Scientists from the ANU have sought the advice of Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin for their high-technology research into cricket bats. ANU physicists are for the first time studying...

8 May 2015

Fusion energy boost for high-tech Australia

The world's largest fusion energy experiment, ITER, has turned to Australian physicists to supply a crucial imaging system for the multi-billion-euro experiment. Engaging with ITER...

7 May 2015

ANZAC Day image fabricated by Focused Ion Beam

The ANZAC pattern was fabricated by using Focused Ion Bean (FIB) system at the Australian National Fabrication Facility by Dr Evgeny Mironov a recently graduated visiting PhD student...

24 April 2015

A gift of Love to ANU

After a long career of teaching and research, Emeritus Professor John Love believes it is now time to give some more. Professor Love is donating $1 million to the ANU to fund a new scholarship...

14 November 2014

Long-distance reversible laser tractor beam created

Laser physicists have built a tractor beam that can repel and attract objects, using a hollow laser beam that is bright around the edges and dark in its centre. It is the first long-distance...

22 October 2014

Physicists create water tractor beam

Physicists at The Australian National University have created a tractor beam on water, providing a radical new technique that could confine oil spills, manipulate floating objects or explain...

11 August 2014

Launch of the H-1 facility upgrade

The Australian Plasma Fusion Research Facility (APFRF) held a successful launch of the H-1 facility upgrade yesterday in coordination with the launch of the strategic plan for fusion...

11 July 2014

Tiny laser breakthrough by ANU researchers shines light on faster computers

Faster, smaller electronics are one step closer with researchers from The Australian National University successfully making the first room temperature lasers from gallium arsenide...

18 November 2013

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