UAA Plasma Laboratory

Undergraduate-centered research on the fourth North state of matter

The UAA Plasma Physics Laboratory is pursuing multi-disciplinary research on the plasma state of matter. This includes experimental and computational studies of fundamental plasma phenomena as well as plasma applications and technology.

The Plasma Lab group currently includes student researchers who study physics, mathematics, engineering, biology, and computer science. If you are interested in our research, or might want to join our group, we'd love to hear from you!

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Henrique Miller wins Goldwater scholarship for 2019-20

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Sara Rutz featured in Northern Light article on UAA Research

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Peter Renner wins prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

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NEW: Dr. Hicks and the UAA Plasma Lab receive NASA MOSAICS award and funding to work with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Advancing Plasma-Based Spacecraft Propulsion. They presented a poster on the research at the NASA MOSAICS Symposium in Washington D.C. in December.


UAA Plasma Lab publishes “Conceptual design of an RF multipole plasma transport and trap loading experiment” in Results in Physics





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