Current research

For the last 5 years, I have been focusing my attention on my experiment, the Columbia Non-neutral Torus (CNT). The CNT experiment was built to study non-neutral plasmas confined on magnetic surfaces. CNT is a so-called stellarator, which has a twisted toroidal shape, that is, the shape of a twisted tire-tube (or donut). Click here for the CNT homepage.

I am also currently involved with the HBT-EP experiment, doing experiments on resisitive wall mode feedback stabilization. HBT-EP is a tokamak (a toroidal shape that is not twisted) which is devoted to the study of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and their feedback stabilization. This is of importance to fusion energy science since it will allow us to increase the pressure of the plasmas confined in tokamaks and therefore will help create a more economical fusion power plant.