Plasma & Pulsed Power Research Group

From high power broadband ultrasound sources to new environmentally friendly synthetic approaches and decontamination techniques, the Plasma and Pulsed Power Group continues to provide UK governmental institutions and leading global industries with novel and unconventional ways to solve current pressing challenges.

Over the last decades, the group has also provided novel solutions to the multiple challenges faced by the defence industry and facilitated the transfer of pulsed power technology from the military to the civilian domain.

Our research group develops and maintains a wide range of modern equipment that include high energy capacitor banks with triggerable switches, MV TESLA transformers and DC-RF-microwave plasma sources, we also possess a broad range of diagnostic tools such as ultrahigh speed cameras, UV/visible/IR spectrometers, high power lasers, voltage (mV to MV) and current (mA to MA) sensors, magnetic and electric field differential probes, Kerr effect systems, pressure sensors and high performance digital oscilloscopes (up to 18 GHz).

As an active member of the research community, the group is involved in national and international conferences, participates in a number of international committees and publishes in top peer-reviewed international journals.

We have a well-established collaboration network with research centres all around the world including Pau University (France), Eindhoven Technical University (The Netherlands), Texas Tech University (USA), The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), Xi’an Jiaotong University (China), Pohang University of Science and Technology (Korea), INP Greifswald (Germany), Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (Lithuania) and Lisbon Engineering Superior Institute (Portugal).

• Professor Nigel Seddon
• Professor Felipe Iza
• Peter Senior
• Keith Stanley
• Peter Rushforth