For more than half a century, researchers around the world have been engaged in attempts
to achieve fusion ignition as a proof of principle of various fusion concepts. Following the …

On December 5, 2022, an indirect drive fusion implosion on the National Ignition Facility
(NIF) achieved a target gain G target of 1.5. This is the first laboratory demonstration of …

Capsule performance optimization campaigns will be conducted at the National Ignition
Facility [GH Miller, EI Moses, and CR Wuest, Nucl. Fusion 44, 228 (2004)] to substantially …

Ignition requires precisely controlled, high convergence implosions to assemble a dense
shell of deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel with ρR>∼ 1 g/cm 2 surrounding a 10 keV hot spot with …

X-ray ablation rates have been measured in beryllium, copper-doped beryllium, germanium-
doped plastic (Ge-doped CH), and diamondlike high density carbon (HDC) for radiation …

Surrogate implosions play an important role at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) for isolating
aspects of the complex physical processes associated with fully integrated ignition …

A key demonstration on the path to inertial fusion energy is the achievement of high fusion
yield (hundreds of MJ) and high target gain. Toward this goal, an indirect-drive high-yield …

Abstract The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was
formally dedicated in May 2009. The hohlraum energetics campaign with all 192 beams …

Experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) show that the implosion shape of inertial
confinement fusion ablators is a key factor limiting performance. To achieve more …

Electron beam evaporation (EBE) deposition technique was employed to prepare
amorphous boron carbide thin films at room temperature. In this work, a new contribution to …