Volume 4 Regular Issue (2009)

Announcement from the Editorial Board

Review Articles

Plasma Crystals - Structure and Dynamics
Alexander PIEL
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 013 (2009) <Published on 15 May 2009>

Review Articles

Energy Injection for Fast Ignition
Richard B. STEPHENS, Kramer U. AKLI, Teresa BARTAL, Farhat N. BEG, Sugreev CHAWLA, Cliff D. CHEN, Hui CHEN, Sophia CHEN, Bradley CHRISMAN, Richard R. FREEMAN, Daniel HEY, Michael KEY, Andreas KEMP, James KING, Katherine LANCASTER, Sebastien LePAPE, Anthony LINK, Tammy MA, Andy MACKINNON, Andrew MACPHEE, Peter NORREYS, Dustin OFFERMAN, Vladimir OVCHINNIKOV, John PASLEY, Prav PATEL, Douglas SCHUMACHER, Yasuhiko SENTOKU, Ying TSUI, Scott WILKS, Linn Van WOERKOM, Ming-Sheng WEI and Toshinori YABUUCHI
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 016 (2009) <Published on 07 May 2009>

Review Articles

Enhanced MHD Transport in Astrophysical Accretion Flows: Turbulence, Winds and Jets
Peter B. DOBBIE, Zdenka KUNCIC, Geoffrey V. BICKNELL and Raquel SALMERON
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 017 (2009) <Published on 29 May 2009>

Review Articles

Blob Transport in the Plasma Edge: a Review
O. E. GARCIA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 019 (2009) <Published on 29 May 2009>

Review Articles

Review of Energetic Particle Generation and Electromagnetic Radiation from Intense Laser-Plasma Interactions at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yutong LI, Zhengming SHENG, Liming CHEN, Xin LU, Jinglong MA, Zhaohua WANG, Quanli DONG, Zhiyi WEI and Jie ZHANG
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 023 (2009) <Published on 23 Jun. 2009>

Review Articles

Dusty Plasma Processes in Geophysics
Sergey I. POPEL
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 031 (2009) <Published on 23 Jun. 2009>

Review Articles

Nonlinear Aspects of Quantum Plasma Physics: Nanoplasmonics and Nanostructures in Dense Plasmas
Bengt ELIASSON and Padma K. SHUKLA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 032 (2009) <Published on 07 Jul. 2009>

Review Articles

Progress Towards Burning Plasmas
James W. VAN DAM
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 035 (2009) <Published on 29 Jun. 2009>

Review Articles

Structure Formation in Turbulent Plasmas
Sanae-I. ITOH
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 038 (2009) <Published on 12 Aug. 2009>

Review Articles

Recent Laboratory Astrophysics Experiments at LULI
Michel KOENIG, Claire MICHAUT, Bérénice LOUPIAS, Emeric FALIZE, Chris GREGORY, Yasuhiro KURAMITSU, Seiichi DONO, Tommaso VINCI, Jonny WAUGH, Nigel WOOLSEY, Norimasa OZAKI, Alessandra BENUZZI-MOUNAIX, Alessandra RAVASIO, Serge BOUQUET, Marc Rabec le GOAHEC, Wigen NAZAROV, Serguey PIKUZ, Youichi SAKAWA, Hideaki TAKABE and Ryosuke KODAMA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 044 (2009) <Published on 24 Sep. 2009>

Review Articles

Surfing Plasma Waves: A New Paradigm for Particle Accelerators
Chandrashekhar JOSHI
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 045 (2009) <Published on 05 Oct. 2009>

Review Articles

Laser Production of Extreme Ultraviolet Light Source for the Next Generation Lithography Application
Shinsuke FUJIOKA, Hiroaki NISHIMURA, Katsunobu NISHIHARA, Noriaki MIYANAGA, Yasukazu IZAWA, Kunioki MIMA, Yoshinori SHIMADA and Atsushi SUNAHARA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 048 (2009) <Published on 05 Nov. 2009>

Rapid Communications

Interferometry for Weakly Relativistic Plasmas
Hitoshi HOJO, Atsushi MASE and Kazuo KAWAHATA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 010 (2009) <Published on 06 Mar. 2009>

Rapid Communications

Achievement of High Power Sub-Terahertz Radiations with a Second Harmonic Gyrotron
Takashi NOTAKE, Teruo SAITO, Yoshinori TATEMATSU, Akihito FUJII, Shinya OGASAWARA, La AGUSU, Vladimir N. MANUILOV, Isamu OGAWA and Toshitaka IDEHARA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 011 (2009) <Published on 06 Mar. 2009>

Rapid Communications

Geodesic Acoustic Mode Spectroscopy II
Sanae-I. ITOH, Seiya NISHIMURA, Kimitaka ITOH, Akihide FUJISAWA, Yoshihiko NAGASHIMA and Shigeru INAGAKI
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 014 (2009) <Published on 07 May 2009>

Rapid Communications

Phase Alignments between MHD Modes Followed by Minor Collapses on TST-2
Hiroshi TOJO, Akira EJIRI, Yuichi TAKASE, Yoshihiko NAGASHIMA, Osamu WATANABE, Yuuki ADACHI, Takuya OOSAKO, Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Byung Il AN, Hiroaki KOBAYASHI, Hiroki KURASHINA, Haduki MATSUZAWA, Kotaro YAMADA, Makoto SASAKI and Tetsuya MASUDA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 015 (2009) <Published on 07 May 2009>

Rapid Communications

Estimation of Requirements for Warm Dense Matter Generation Driven by Intense Electron Beam
Takashi KIKUCHI, Toru SASAKI, Kazuhiko HORIOKA and Nob. HARADA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 026 (2009) <Published on 04 Jun. 2009>

Rapid Communications

Observation of Fast Ion Losses Induced by Various MHD Modes Driven by Fast Ions and Bulk Plasma Pressure in the Large Helical Device
Kunihiro OGAWA, Mitsutaka ISOBE, Kazuo TOI and LHD Experiment Group
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 033 (2009) <Published on 07 Jul. 2009>

Rapid Communications

Improvement of Field Accuracy and Plasma Performance in the RT-1 Device
Yoshihisa YANO, Zensho YOSHIDA, Junji MORIKAWA, Haruhiko SAITOH, Hiroyuki HAYASHI and Tatsunori MIZUSHIMA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 039 (2009) <Published on 12 Aug. 2009>

Rapid Communications

Collisional Effects on Absorption and Energy Transport in a Dense Solid-Carbon Thin Film Irradiated by Subpicosecond Lasers
Mo CHEN, Daisuke SAITOU and Yasuaki KISHIMOTO
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 040 (2009) <Published on 12 Aug. 2009>

Rapid Communications

Axial Profile of Balmer-Alpha Emission near a Tungsten Target in the Compact PWI Simulator APSEDAS
Yuta HIGASHIZONO, Mizuki SAKAMOTO, Toshimasa MIYAZAKI, Kazuma OGAWA, Kazuki OZAKI, Yousuke NAKASHIMA, Tatsuo SHOJI, Naoko ASHIKAWA, Masayuki TOKITANI, Kazutoshi TOKUNAGA, Suguru MASUZAKI, Kaoru OHYA, Akio SAGARA and Kohnosuke SATO
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 043 (2009) <Published on 24 Sep. 2009>

Rapid Communications

First Demonstration of Collisionless Driven Reconnection in a Multi-Hierarchy Simulation
Shunsuke USAMI, Hiroaki OHTANI, Ritoku HORIUCHI and Mitsue DEN
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 049 (2009) <Published on 05 Nov. 2009>

Rapid Communications

Initial Results of X-ray Imaging and Energy Spectrum Measurements of Hot Electron Plasmas in RT-1
Haruhiko SAITOH, Yoshihisa YANO, Tatsunori MIZUSHIMA, Junji MORIKAWA and Zensho YOSHIDA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 050 (2009) <Published on 05 Nov. 2009>

Letters

Nondestructive Sensor Using Microwaves from a Laser Plasma
Hirotomo NAKAJIMA, Yoshinori SHIMADA, Toshihiro SOMEKAWA, Masayuki FUJITA and Kazuo A. TANAKA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 003 (2009) <Published on 23 Jan. 2009>

Letters

Long Pulse and High Power Repetitive Operation of the 170 GHz ITER Gyrotron
Ken KAJIWARA, Atsushi KASUGAI, Yasuhisa ODA, Koji TAKAHASHI, Noriyuki KOBAYASHI and Keishi SAKAMOTO
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 006 (2009) <Published on 06 Mar. 2009>

Letters

Ascent Velocity of Plasmoids Generated by Surface Discharges
Uwe WENZEL
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 046 (2009) <Published on 05 Oct. 2009>

Letters

Adhesion Strength of TiN Stacked TiO₂ Film Correlated with Contact Angle, Critical Load, and XPS Spectra
Shankar PARAJULEE, Masahiro HAYAKAWA and Shunjiro IKEZAWA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 055 (2009) <Published on 08 Dec. 2009>

Regular Articles

Adiabatic Wave-Particle Interaction Revisited
Robert L. DEWAR and Justin C. -C. YAP
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 001 (2009) <Published on 22 Jan. 2009>

Regular Articles

Development of Advanced Pellet Injector Systems for Plasma Fueling
Ryuichi SAKAMOTO, Hiroshi YAMADA and LHD experimental group
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 002 (2009) <Published on 29 Jan. 2009>

Regular Articles

Visualized Blow-off from Helium Irradiated Tungsten in Response to ELM-like Heat Load
Shin KAJITA, Noriyasu OHNO, Wataru SAKAGUCHI and Makoto TAKAGI
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 004 (2009) <Published on 06 Feb. 2009>

Regular Articles

Theoretical Study of the Electrostatic Lens Aberrations of a Negative Ion Accelerator for a Neutral Beam Injector
Kenji MIYAMOTO and Akiyoshi HATAYAMA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 007 (2009) <Published on 16 Mar. 2009>

Regular Articles

Numerical Study of the Ripple Resonance Diffusion of Alpha Particles in Tokamaks
Hideyuki MIMATA, Keiji TANI, Hiroaki TSUTSUI, Kenji TOBITA, Shunji TSUJI-IIO and Ryuichi SHIMADA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 008 (2009) <Published on 16 Mar. 2009>

Regular Articles

Observation of Diffusive Flows during Liquid Phase Microwave Sintering
Takashi WATANABE, Motoyasu SATO, Sadatsugu TAKAYAMA and Akihiro MATSUBARA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 009 (2009) <Published on 16 Mar. 2009>

Regular Articles

Spectrally Condensed Fluid Turbulence and L-H Transitions in Plasma
Michael SHATS and Hua XIA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 012 (2009) <Published on 04 Jun. 2009>

Regular Articles

Nonlinear Dynamics of Rotating Multi-Component Pair Plasmas and e-p-i Plasmas
Ioannis KOURAKIS, Waleed M. MOSLEM, Usama M. ABDELSALAM, Refaat SABRY and Padma Kant SHUKLA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 018 (2009) <Published on 29 May 2009>

Regular Articles

Construction and Operation of an Internal Coil Device, RT-1, with a High-Temperature Superconductor
Yuichi OGAWA, Zensho YOSHIDA, Junji MORIKAWA, Haruhiko SAITO, Sho WATANABE, Yoshihisa YANO, Shoichi MIZUMAKI and Taizo TOSAKA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 020 (2009) <Published on 15 May 2009>

Regular Articles

Scrape-off Layer Plasma Flow in L- and H-Mode Plasmas on JT-60U
Nobuyuki ASAKURA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 021 (2009) <Published on 07 May 2009>

Regular Articles

High Beta and High Density Operation in TPE-RX
Haruhisa KOGUCHI, Hajime SAKAKITA, Satoru KIYAMA, Kiyoyuki YAMBE, Tomohiko ASAI, Yoichi HIRANO, Fulvio AURIEMMA, David TERRANOVA and Paolo INNOCENTE
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 022 (2009) <Published on 15 May 2009>

Regular Articles

Open Boundary Condition for Particle Simulation in Magnetic Reconnection Research
Hiroaki OHTANI and Ritoku HORIUCHI
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 024 (2009) <Published on 04 Jun. 2009>

Regular Articles

Spatial Structure of Volume Recombination in JT-60U Detached Divertor Plasmas
Kayoko FUJIMOTO, Tomohide NAKANO, Hirotaka KUBO, Keiji SAWADA, Tomonori TAKIZUKA, Hisato KAWASHIMA, Katsuhiro SHIMIZU and Nobuyuki ASAKURA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 025 (2009) <Published on 04 Jun. 2009>

Regular Articles

Extension of Improved Particle and Energy Confinement Regime in the Core of LHD Plasma
Osamu KANEKO, Masayuki YOKOYAMA, Mikiro YOSHINUMA, Ken-ichi NAGAOKA, Katsumi IDA, Ryuichi SAKAMOTO, Tsuyoshi AKIYAMA, Naoko ASHIKAWA, Hirotaka CHIKARAISHI, Masahiko EMOTO, Hisamichi FUNABA, Pavel GONCHAROV, Motoshi GOTO, Takuya GOTO, Shinji HAMAGUCHI, Katsuji ICHIGUCHI, Takeshi IDO, Hiroe IGAMI, Katsunori IKEDA, Shinsaku IMAGAWA, Mitsutaka ISOBE, Kimitaka ITOH, Akifumi IWAMOTO, Ryutaro KANNO, Hiroshi KASAHARA, Naohiro KASUYA, Daiji KATO, Kazuo KAWAHATA, Masahiro KOBAYASHI, Shin KUBO, Ryuhei KUMAZAWA, Ryuji MAEKAWA, Suguru MASUZAKI, Toshiyuki MITO, Jun-ichi MIYAZAWA, Naoki MIZUGUCHI, Tomohiro MORISAKI, Shigeru MORITA, Gen MOTOJIMA, Sadatsugu MUTO, Takashi MUTOH, Yoshio NAGAYAMA, Noriyoshi NAKAJIMA, Yukio NAKAMURA, Hideya NAKANISHI, Kazumichi NARIHARA, Yoshiro NARUSHIMA, Kiyohiko NISHIMURA, Masaki NISHIURA, Tetsuhiro OBANA, Satoshi OHDACHI, Nobuyoshi OHYABU, Masaki OSAKABE, Tetsuo OZAKI, Byron J. PETERSON, Akio SAGARA, Kenji SAITO, Satoru SAKAKIBARA, Shinsuke SATAKE, Kuninori SATO, Tetsuo SEKI, Akihiro SHIMIZU, Takashi SHIMOZUMA, Mamoru SHOJI, Shigeru SUDO, Hideo SUGAMA, Chihiro SUZUKI, Yasuhiro SUZUKI, Hiromi TAKAHASHI, Kazuya TAKAHATA, Yasuhiko TAKEIRI, Hitoshi TAMURA, Naoki TAMURA, Kenji TANAKA, Shinichiro TODA, Kazuo TOI, Masayuki TOKITANI, Tokihiko TOKUZAWA, Katsuyoshi TSUMORI, Kiyomasa WATANABE, Ichihiro YAMADA, Hiroshi YAMADA, Osamu YAMAGISHI, Nagato YANAGI, Shinji YOSHIMURA, Yasuo YOSHIMURA and Akio KOMORI
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 027 (2009) <Published on 04 Jun. 2009>

Regular Articles

Liquid-Gas Interfacial Plasmas for the Formation of Novel Nanobiomaterials
Toshiro KANEKO, Kazuhiko BABA and Rikizo HATAKEYAMA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 028 (2009) <Published on 29 Jun. 2009>

Regular Articles

Modeling Solar Wind Turbulence: The Kolmogorov-like Way
Vinod KRISHAN
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 029 (2009) <Published on 29 Jun. 2009>

Regular Articles

Statistical Theory of Plasmas Turbulence
Eun-jin KIM and Johan ANDERSON
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 030 (2009) <Published on 23 Jun. 2009>

Regular Articles

Characterization of Dust Particles Ranging in Size from 1 nm to 10 µm Collected in the LHD
Kazunori KOGA, Shinya IWASHITA, Satoru KIRIDOSHI, Masaharu SHIRATANI, Naoko ASHIKAWA, Kiyohiko NISHIMURA, Akio SAGARA, Akio KOMORI and LHD Experimental Group
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 034 (2009) <Published on 15 Jul. 2009>

Regular Articles

Effects of the Stochasticity on Transport Properties in High-β LHD
Yasuhiro SUZUKI, Kiyomasa WATANABE, Hisamichi FUNABA, Satrou SAKAKIBARA, Noriyoshi NAKAJIMA, Nobuyoyshi OHYABU and LHD experiment group
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 036 (2009) <Published on 13 Jul. 2009>

Regular Articles

Development of High Power Gyrotron and Power Modulation Technique using the JT-60U ECRF System
Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Masayuki TERAKADO, Fumiaki SATO, Kenji YOKOKURA, Mitsugu SHIMONO, Koichi HASEGAWA, Masayuki SAWAHATA, Sadaaki SUZUKI, Shinichi HIRANAI, Koichi IGARASHI, Kenji WADA, Takashi SUZUKI, Ken KAJIWARA, Atsushi KASUGAI, Keishi SAKAMOTO, Akihiko ISAYAMA, Go MATSUNAGA and Shinichi MORIYAMA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 037 (2009) <Published on 13 Jul. 2009>

Regular Articles

Laser Energy Scaling Law for the Yield of Neutrons Generated by Intense Femtosecond Laser-Cluster Interactions
Shuji SAKABE, Masaki HASHIDA, Shigeki TOKITA and Kazuto OTANI
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 041 (2009) <Published on 16 Sep. 2009>

Regular Articles

Divertor Impurity-Influx Monitor for ITER: Spectral Throughput Measurement on an Optical Prototype for the Upper Port and Optimization of Viewing Chords based on Computerized Tomography
Atsushi IWAMAE, Tatsuo SUGIE, Hiroaki OGAWA and Yoshinori KUSAMA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 042 (2009) <Published on 04 Sep. 2009>

Regular Articles

Measurement of Electric Field Distribution along the Plasma Column in Microwave Jet Discharges at Atmospheric Pressure
M. Abdur RAZZAK, Shuichi TAKAMURA, Takayuki TSUJIKAWA, Hideto SHIBATA and Yuto HATAKEYAMA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 047 (2009) <Published on 22 Oct. 2009>

Regular Articles

Rotational Stabilization of Resistive Wall Mode on JT-60U
Go MATSUNAGA, Manabu TAKECHI, Nobuyuki AIBA, Genichi KURITA, Yoshiteru SAKAMOTO, Yoshihiko KOIDE, Akihiko ISAYAMA, Takahiro SUZUKI, Takaaki FUJITA, Naoyuki OYAMA, Takahisa OZEKI, Yutaka KAMADA and JT-60 Team
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 051 (2009) <Published on 05 Nov. 2009>

Regular Articles

Microplasma Array Serving as Photonic Crystals and Plasmon Chains
Osamu SAKAI, Teruki NAITO and Kunihide TACHIBANA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 052 (2009) <Published on 05 Nov. 2009>

Regular Articles

Trapping, Anomalous Transport, and Quasi-coherent Structures in Magnetically Confined Plasmas
Madalina VLAD and Florin SPINEANU
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 053 (2009) <Published on 10 Nov. 2009>

Regular Articles

Measurement of the Density Profile of a Toroidal Non-neutral Plasma with a Wall-Probe Array
Haruhiko SAITOH, Yoshihisa YANO, Tatsunori MIZUSHIMA, Junji MORIKAWA and Zensho YOSHIDA
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 054 (2009) <Published on 15 Dec. 2009>

Errata

Erratum: “Adiabatic Wave-Particle Interaction Revisited” [Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 001 (2009)]
Robert L. DEWAR and Justin C. -C. YAP
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 005 (2009) <Published on 06 Feb. 2009>

Errata

Erratum: “Primal Macro-Projective Integration Method for Multi-Scale Plasma Simulation” [Plasma Fusion Res. 3, 021 (2008)]
Miloš M. ŠKORIĆ, Aleksandra MALUCKOV and Seiji ISHIGURO
Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 056 (2009) <Published on 17 Dec. 2009>