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Nonequilibrium Plasma Dynamics Lab
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A lab that measures the fluctuations of turbulent plasma and explores the order that emerges within it.
AboutAbout the lab
Unraveling the structure of turbulent plasma
The Nonequilibrium Plasma Dynamics Lab (Moon Lab) experimentally studies disordered plasma (turbulent plasma) and the mechanisms by which structures form within it.
Plasma is a state of matter widespread in the universe, and studying it leads to a better understanding of the natural world and to technological innovation, including in nuclear fusion.
Turbulence is thought to play a major role as a mechanism by which plasma escapes (turbulent transport), and understanding plasma turbulence is essential to realizing nuclear fusion.
The lab precisely measures fluctuations of various sizes and speeds and analyzes the data to discover new laws.
Key terms
- Plasma
- A state in which a gas becomes hot and its atoms separate into electrons and ions that fly around.
- Turbulent transport
- The carrying of plasma particles and heat outward by turbulence.
- Tokamak
- A device that confines plasma with a doughnut-shaped magnetic field.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to clarify experimentally how plasma turbulence builds structures on its own. Using the PLATO tokamak and PANTA linear plasma device at the Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, as well as the QUEST spherical tokamak, it explores universal principles of transport and structure formation in turbulent plasma.
*Illustrative imageStudying the basics of turbulence with a linear device
The lab creates plasma and induces turbulence in the PANTA linear plasma device, and observes the turbulence and the plasma it carries at many points simultaneously with multichannel probes, to clarify the basic physics of turbulence.
*Illustrative imageSurveying turbulence in doughnut-shaped plasma
In the PLATO toroidal device, the lab induces turbulence in plasma confined in a doughnut shape, and measures plasma hotter than that in the linear device across the whole region without touching it, using an integrated observation system.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Moon Lab consist of faculty, technical staff, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorChanho Moon
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “IPT-plasma-jet” Endeavour88 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Studying the basics of turbulence with a linear device: “AWAKE helicon plasma cell” Ordan, Julien Marius / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Surveying turbulence in doughnut-shaped plasma: “KSTAR tokamak” Michel Maccagnan / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (核融合プラズマ物性制御工学研究室): “Soldering practice object for tokamak construction, in park of Tsukuba Expo Center” Syced / CC0 (cropped)
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