2017 Publications

1. Comparison of measured and computed beam ion current densities emitted from two 2 kJ plasma focus machines. M. Akel, S. Alsheikh Salo, Sh. Ismael, S.H. Saw, S. Lee. Online 5 Dec 2016. Vacuum 136 (2017) 163-167

2. Effect of the variation of pressure on the dynamics and neutron yield of plasma focus machines, Arwinder Singh, Lee Sing, Saw Sor Heoh,, IEEE Trans Plasma Sci Vol 45 issue 8 2286-6691 (2017)

3. Measurement of Model Parameters versus Gas Pressure in High Performance Plasma Focus NX1 and NX2 Operated in Neon , P. Gautam, R. Khanal, S H Saw and S. Lee. IEEE Trans Plasma Sci, Vol 45 Issue 8, 2292-2297 (2017)

4. Electron Beam Properties Emitted from Deuterium Plasma Focus: Scaling Laws, Akel Mohamad, Saw Sor Heoh, Lee Sing, IEEE Trans Plasma Sci, Vol 45 issue 8, 2303-2307 (2017)

5. Numerical Experiments on the PF1000 Plasma Focus Device Operated with Nitrogen and Oxygen gases, M. Akel, Sh. Ismael, S. Lee, S. H. Saw and H.J. Kunze, Mod. Phys. Lett. B 31, 1750167 (2017) [11 pages], https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984917501676

6. Fast Faraday cup for fast ion beam TOF measurements in deuterium filled plasma focus device and correlation with Lee model, Vahid Damideh, Jalil Ali, Sor Heoh Saw, Rajdeep Singh Rawat, Paul Lee, Kashif Tufail Chaudhary, Zuhaib Haider Rizvi, Shadab Dabagh, Fairuz Diyana Ismail, and Lee Sing, Physics of Plasmas 24, 063302 (2017); doi: 10.1063/1.4985309

7. Compression mechanisms in the Plasma Focus Pinch, S Lee, S H Saw and Jalil Ali, Invited Keynote Paper presented at ICPSA2016, AIP Conference Proceedings 1824, 020001 (2017); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4978814

8. Knowing the Dense Plasma Focus – The Coming of Age (of the PF) with Broad-ranging Scaling Laws, S H Saw and S Lee, Invited Keynote Paper presented at ICPSA2016, AIP Conference Proceedings 1824, 020002 (2017); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4978815

9. Numerical experiments to study the variation of pressure on India Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) and Imperial College Plasma Focus machines, Arwinder Singh, Saw Sor Heoh and Lee Sing, Invited Paper presented at ICPSA2016, AIP Conference Proceedings 1824, 030002 (2017); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4978820

10. PMT-Scintillator System Set Up for D-D Neutron TOF Measurements in INTI Plasma Focus Device, V Damideh, S H Saw, A Sadighzadeh, J Ali, R S Rawat, P Lee, S. Lee, Paper presented at ICPSA2016,

AIP Conference Proceedings 1824, 030028 (2017); doi: ttp://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4978846

11. Amending the reflected shock phase of the Lee code, Lim Ling Hong, Yap Seong Ling, Saw Sor Heoh, Poh Hun Seng, Lee Ming Chuan, and Lee Sing, Paper presented at ICPSA2016, AIP Conference Proceedings 1824, 030010 (2017); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4978828

12. S H Saw, V Damideh, Jalil Ali, R S Rawat, P Lee, S Lee, Damage Study of Irradiated Tungsten using Fast Focus Mode of a 2.2 kJ Plasma Focus, Vacuum, 144, Pages 14-20, Oct (2017)

13. PF1000 High Energy Plasma Focus Device Operated with Neon as a Copious Soft X-Ray Source, M. Akel, Sh. Ismael, S. Lee, S. H. Saw and H.J. Kunze, IEEE Trans Plasma Sci 45(11) 2979-2983,

doi: 10.1109/TPS.2017.2761843 Nov (2017)

14. The Plasma Focus- Numerical Experiments, Insights and Applications, S Lee and S H Saw, Chapter 3 (pages 113-232) in “Plasma Science and Technology for Emerging Economies – An AAAPT Experience” DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4217-1_3 Edited by Rajdeep S Rawat, © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. (2017)

15. The current-voltage characteristics of the plasma focus – a deeper look, S H Saw & S Lee, Invited Paper. 10th ICPSA October 2017, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, accepted for publication in Thai J Phys (2018)

16. S Lee, From Beam-target to Thermonuclear Fusion in the Dense Plasma Focus Pinch, Invited Plenary paper presented at 10th ICPSA October 2017, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, submitted for publication.

17. S H Saw, M Akel, Jalil Ali and S Lee, Review of Plasma Focus Numerical Experiments, invited lecture presented at York Plasma Institute, University of York, 17 Nov 2017.

18. S Lee and S H Saw, From Beam-target to Thermonuclear Fusion in the Dense Plasma Focus Pinch: Energy throughput scaling, invited lecture presented at York Plasma Institute, University of York, 17 Nov 2017