Imperial College London

DrSimonBland

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Reader in Plasma Physics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7650sn.bland

 
 
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Location

 

739aBlackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Summary

Research Interests

  • Fusion energy and extreme states of matter
  • Wire Array Z-pinches
  • Compact Hohlraums
  • Laboratory Astrophysics
  • Dense plasma jets for driving HEDP experiments
  • Radiative shock waves
  • Isentropic compression

Invited Lectures and Presentations

Presentations at:

  • Royal Society Summer Exhibition
  • British Festival of Science

Invited talks at:

  • Dense Z-Pinch Conferece 2005
  • American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics Meeting 2006
  • Institute of Physics, Plasma Physics Meeting 2008
  • International Conference of High Energy Density Physics 2009

Publications

Journals

Lavrinovich I, Gusev AI, Bland S, et al., 2022, 2-kV Thyristor Triggered in Impact-Ionization Wave Mode by a Solid-State Spiral Generator, Ieee Transactions on Plasma Science, ISSN:0093-3813

Maler D, Efimov S, Liverts M, et al., 2022, Peculiarities of planar shockwave interaction with air-water interface and solid target, Physics of Plasmas, Vol:29, ISSN:1070-664X

Halliday JWD, Crilly A, Chittenden J, et al., 2022, Investigating radiatively driven, magnetized plasmas with a university scale pulsed-power generator, Physics of Plasmas, Vol:29, ISSN:1070-664X, Pages:1-13

Strucka J, Halliday JWD, Gheorghiu T, et al., 2022, A portable X-pinch design for x-ray diagnostics of warm dense matter, Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Vol:7, ISSN:2468-080X, Pages:1-11

Conference

Halliday JWD, Crilly A, Chittenden J, et al., 2022, An Experimental Study of Magnetic Flux Penetration in Radiatively Driven Plasma Flows, ISSN:0730-9244

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