Florian Martin Laggner

Development and Validation of a Modular Actively Cooled High-Heat-Flux Test Stand Utilizing an Electron-Beam Powder Bed Fusion Platform

Zhang, H., Horn, T., Schillaci, A., Matavalam, N., Laggner, F., Uvalle, S., & Carriere, P. (2026, January 1). SSRN Electronic Journal.

Fluid-kinetic modeling of a high power density radio frequency inductively coupled positive hydrogen ion source

Hossain, M. S., Regev, T., Shah, M. A., Laggner, F. M., Ammons, K. J., Mazzeo, A., … Lietz, A. M. (2026, January 23). Plasma Sources Science and Technology.

AMAROK: A Novel Single-Turn Multi-Coil Antenna Demonstration Setup for DIII-D Neutral Beam Injector Upgrade

Davda, K. M., Laggner, F. M., Kallenberg, E., Ammons, K. J., Crowley, B. J., Scoville, J. T., … Shah, M. A. (2025, June 15).

Combined Influence of Rotation and Scrape-Off Layer Drifts on Recycling Asymmetries in Tokamak Plasmas

Emdee, E. D., Horvath, L., Bortolon, A., Gerrú, R., Wilkie, G. J., Haskey, S. R., & Laggner, F. M. (2025, November 24). Physical Review Letters.

Design and Engineering of LUPIN: A Test-Bed Radio-Frequency Ion Source for Enhanced Neutral Beam Injection on DIII-D

Mazzeo, A., Laggner, F. M., Ammons, K. J., Hossain, S., Kallenberg, E., King, L., … Scoville, J. T. (2025, June 16). Fusion Science & Technology, Vol. 6.

Design and Study of Inductively Coupled Plasma Chamber Components Using the SupRISE Test Device at DIII-D

Kallenberg, E., Crowley, B., Scoville, J. T., Laggner, F. M., Mazzeo, A., Ammons, K. J., … Shannon, S. C. (2025, August 4). Fusion Science & Technology, Vol. 8.

Impact of ionization peak location on measured opaqueness in DIII-D H-mode plasmas

Balbin-Arias, J. J., Mordijck, S., Wilks, T. M., Horvath, L., Odstrcil, T., Chaban, R. A., … Gerrú, R. (2025, August 19). Nuclear Fusion.

Impact of the isotope effect on divertor detachment and pedestal structure in DIII-D

Mattes, R., Casali, L., Osborne, T., Leonard, A., Wang, H., Laggner, F., … McLean, A. (2025, October 15). Nuclear Fusion.

Production- and Transport-Limited Fluxes in Inductively Coupled Ion Sources for Neutral Beam Injectors

Hossain, M. S., Regev, T., Mazzeo, A., Ammons, K. J., Laggner, F. M., Shah, M. A., … Lietz, A. M. (2025, June 15).

Progress in pedestal and edge physics: Chapter 3 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation

Fenstermacher, M. E., Baylor, L. R., Luna, E., Dunne, M. G., Huijsmans, G. T. A., Kirk, A., … Zhang, T. (2025, April 29). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 65.

Ultrafine-Grained Al/Al2Cu Composite Formation via Friction Stir Processing of Cold-Sprayed Coatings

Rizvi, S. M. M., Uddin, M. J., McRobie, C., Hartmann, J., Malakar, A., Yano, K., … Kautz, E. (2025, September 30). JOM, Vol. 9.

Broadening of the Divertor Heat Flux Profile in High Confinement Tokamak Fusion Plasmas with Edge Pedestals Limited by Turbulence in DIII-D

Ernst, D. R., Bortolon, A., Chang, C. S., Ku, S., Scotti, F., Wang, H. Q., … Watkins, J. (2024, June 7). Physical Review Letters, Vol. 132.

Decoupling of peeling and ballooning thresholds for pedestal stability and reduction in ELM frequency via enhanced turbulence with edge electron cyclotron heating in DIII-D

Nuclear Fusion, 64(8), 086010.

Impact of ionization and transport on pedestal density structure in DIII-D and Alcator C-Mod

Mordijck, S., Chaban, R. A., Reksoatmodjo, R., Balbin-Arias, J. J., Chuang, Y., Loughran, J., … Osborne, T. (2024, September 16). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 64.

Inter-ELM pedestal turbulence dynamics dependence on q₉₅ and temperature gradient

Yan, Z., McKee, G. R., Xia, J., Jian, X., Groebner, R., Rhodes, T., … DIII-D Team. (2024, June 3). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 64.

Learning from each other: Cross-cutting diagnostic development activities between magnetic and inertial confinement fusion (invited)

Johnson, M. G., Schlossberg, D., Appelbe, B., Ball, J., Bitter, M., Casey, D. T., … Wink, C. (2024, September 1). Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 95.

Manipulating density pedestal structure to improve core–edge integration towards low collisionality

Wang, H. Q., Hong, R. J., Groebner, R., Jian, X., Rhodes, T., Leonard, A. W., … Watkins, J. G. (2024, October 10). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 64.

Reconstruction and interpretation of ionization asymmetry in magnetic confinement via synthetic diagnostics

Wilkie, G. J., Laggner, F., Hager, R., Rosenthal, A., Ku, S.-H., Churchill, R. M., … Bortolon, A. (2024, June 7). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 64.

The role of isotope mass on neutral fueling and density pedestal structure in the DIII-D tokamak

Chaban, R. A., Mordijck, S., Rosenthal, A. M., Bortolon, A., Hughes, J. W., Knolker, M., … Wilks, T. M. (2024, January 22). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 64.

Upgrade of the Lyman-alpha diagnostic system on DIII-D for main chamber edge neutral studies

Horvath, L., Mauzey, D., Bortolon, A., Laggner, F. M., Nagy, A., Gerrú, R., … Balbin-Arias, J. (2024, August 1). Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 95.

In-situ coating of silicon-rich films on tokamak plasma-facing components with real-time Si material injection

Effenberg, F., Abe, S., Sinclair, G., Abrams, T., Bortolon, A., Wampler, W. R., … DIII-D Team. (2023, August 9). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 63.

Inference of main ion particle transport coefficients with experimentally constrained neutral ionization during edge localized mode recovery on DIII-D

Rosenthal, A. M., Hughes, J. W., Laggner, F. M., Odstrčil, T., Bortolon, A., Wilks, T. M., & Sciortino, F. (2023, February 6). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 63.

Micro-tearing mode dominated electron heat transport in DIII-D H-mode pedestal

Chen, J., Jian, X., Brower, D. L., Haskey, S. R., Yan, Z., Groebner, R., … Banerjee, S. (2023, April 6). Nuclear Fusion.

Pedestal main ion particle transport inference through gas puff modulation with experimental source measurements

Rosenthal, A. M., Hughes, J. W., Laggner, F. M., Odstrčil, T., Bortolon, A., Wilks, T. M., … Sciortino, F. (2023, December 21). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 64.

Progress towards edge-localized mode suppression via magnetic perturbations in hydrogen plasmas

Leuthold, N., Suttrop, W., Paz-Soldan, C., Dunne, M. G., Fischer, R., Hinson, E., … EUROfusion MST1 Team. (2023, December 15). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 64.

Tungsten erosion and divertor leakage from the DIII-D SAS-VW tungsten-coated divertor in experiments with neon gas seeding

Parsons, M. S., Mateja, J. D., Messer, S. H., Abrams, T., Allain, J. P., Bortolon, A., … Wilcox, R. S. (2023, September 25). Nuclear Materials and Energy, Vol. 37.

Wall conditioning effects and boron migration during boron powder injection in ASDEX Upgrade

Krieger, K., Balden, M., Bortolon, A., Dux, R., Griener, M., Hegele, K., … Team, A. S. D. E. X. U. (2023, January 24). Nuclear Materials and Energy, Vol. 34.

Deconvolving the roles of E × B shear and pedestal structure in the energy confinement quality of super H-mode experiments

Garofalo, A. M., Solomon, W. M., Knölker, M., Osborne, T. H., Chrystal, C., Petty, C. C., … Marinoni, A. (2022, January 20). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 62, p. 056008.

Design of a Novel Variable Geometry Divertor for Tokamaks

Xu, C., Nagy, A., Bortolon, A., Shafer, M., & Laggner, F. M. (2022, August 17). IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.

Details of the neutral energy distribution and ionization source using spectrally resolved Balmer-alpha measurements on DIII-D

Haskey, S. R., Grierson, B. A., Stagner, L., Chrystal, C., Bortolon, A., & Laggner, F. M. (2022, October 1). Review of Scientific Instruments.

Improved Particle Confinement with Resonant Magnetic Perturbations in DIII-D Tokamak H-Mode Plasmas

Logan, N. C., Hu, Q., Paz-Soldan, C., Nazikian, R., Rhodes, T., Wilks, T., … Wang, H. (2022, November 10). Physical Review Letters.

Ion thermal transport in the H-mode edge transport barrier on DIII-D

Haskey, S. R., Ashourvan, A., Banerjee, S., Barada, K., Belli, E. A., Bortolon, A., … Zeeland, M. A. V. (2022, January 1). Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 29, p. 012506.

Local measurements of the pedestal magnetic field profile throughout the ELM cycle on DIII-D

Burke, M. G., Fonck, R. J., McKee, G. R., Burrell, K. H., Haskey, S. R., Knolker, M., … Yan, Z. (2022, October 1). Physics of Plasmas.

Mitigation of plasma-wall interactions with low-Z powders in DIII-D high\n confinement plasmas

Effenberg, F., Bortolon, A., Casali, L., Nazikian, R., Bykov, I., Scotti, F., … DIII-D Team None. (2022, March 28). ArXiv (Cornell University), Vol. 62, p. 106015.

NSTX-U theory, modeling and analysis results

Guttenfelder, W., Battaglia, D. J., Belova, E., Bertelli, N., Boyer, M. D., Chang, C. S., … Wirth, B. (2022, February 11). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 62, p. 042023.

Reducing the L-H transition power threshold in ITER-similar-shape DIII-D hydrogen plasmas

Schmitz, L., Wilcox, R. S., Shiraki, D., Rhodes, T. L., Yan, Z., Mckee, G. R., … Petty, C. C. (2022, November 7). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 62, p. 126050.

Robust identification of multiple-input single-output system response for efficient pickup noise removal from tokamak diagnostics

Odstrcil, T., Laggner, F. M., Rosenthal, A. M., Bortolon, A., Hughes, J. W., Spendlove, J. C., & Wilks, T. M. (2022, October 1). Review of Scientific Instruments.

A 1D Lyman-alpha profile camera for plasma edge neutral studies on the DIII-D tokamak

Rosenthal, A. M., Hughes, J. W., Bortolon, A., Laggner, F. M., Wilks, T. M., Vieira, R., … Mauzey, D. (2021, March 1). Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 92, p. 033523.

Absolute calibration of the Lyman-α measurement apparatus at DIII-D

Laggner, F. M., Bortolon, A., Rosenthal, A. M., Wilks, T. M., Hughes, J. W., Freeman, C., … Shafer, M. W. (2021, March 1). Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 92, p. 033522.

DIII-D research advancing the physics basis for optimizing the tokamak approach to fusion energy

Fenstermacher, M. E., Abbate, J., Abe, S., Abrams, T., Adams, M., Adamson, B., … Chen, X. (2021, October 17). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 62, p. 042024.

Development of an integrated core–edge scenario using the super H-mode

Wilks, T. M., Knolker, M., Snyder, P. B., Eldon, D., Scotti, F., Chrystal, C., … Hughes, J. W. (2021, October 29). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 61, p. 126064.

Initial operation and data processing on a system for real-time evaluation of Thomson scattering signals on the Large Helical Device

Hammond, K. C., Laggner, F. M., Diallo, A., Doskoczynski, S., Freeman, C., Funaba, H., … Kolemen, E. (2021, June 1). Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 92, p. 063523.

New understanding of inter-ELM pedestal turbulence, transport, and gradient behavior in the DIII-D tokamak

Barada, K., Rhodes, T. L., Haskey, S. R., Groebner, R., Diallo, A., Banerjee, S., … Wang, G. (2021, October 17). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 61, p. 126037.

Prediction of DIII-D Pedestal Structure From Externally Controllable Parameters

Zeger, E. U., Laggner, F. M., Bortolon, A., Rea, C., Meneghini, O., Saarelma, S., … Zhao, J. (2021, October 1). IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 49, pp. 3212–3227.

Progress from ASDEX Upgrade experiments in preparing the physics basis of ITER operation and DEMO scenario development

Stroth, U., Aguiam, D., Alessi, E., Angioni, C., Arden, N., Parra, R. A., … Figueredo, A. (2021, August 24). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 62, p. 042006.

Time-dependent experimental identification of inter-ELM microtearing modes in the tokamak edge on DIII-D

Nuclear Fusion, 61(11), 116038.

Identity of the JET M-mode and the ASDEX Upgrade I-phase phenomena

Réfy, D. I., Solano, E. R., Vianello, N., Zoletnik, S., Dunai, D., Tál, B., … Delabie, E. (2020, February 12). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 60.

Interpretative SOL modeling throughout multiple ELM cycles in DIII-D

Nelson, A. O., Xing, Z. A., Izacard, O., Laggner, F. M., & Kolemen, E. (2020, December 8). Nuclear Materials and Energy, Vol. 26, p. 100883.

Optimizing the Super H-mode pedestal to improve performance and facilitate divertor integration

Knolker, M., Snyder, P. B., Evans, T. E., Wilks, T., Eldon, D., Grierson, B., … Solomon, W. (2020, October 1). Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 27, p. 102506.

Real-time pedestal optimization and ELM control with 3D fields and gas flows on DIII-D

Laggner, F. M., Eldon, D., Nelson, A. O., Paz-Soldan, C., Bortolon, A., Evans, T. E., … Kolemen, E. (2020, April 14). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 60, p. 076004.

Review: Turbulence dynamics during the pedestal evolution between edge localized modes in magnetic fusion devices

Diallo, A., & Laggner, F. M. (2020, October 8). Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 63, p. 013001.

A scalable real-time framework for Thomson scattering analysis: Application to NSTX-U

Laggner, F. M., Diallo, A., LeBlanc, B. P., Rozenblat, R., Tchilinguirian, G., & Kolemen, E. (2019, April 1). Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 90, p. 043501.

Active conditioning of ASDEX Upgrade tungsten plasma-facing components and discharge enhancement through boron and boron nitride particulate injection

Lunsford, R., Rohde, V., Bortolon, A., Dux, R., Herrmann, A., Kallenbach, A., … Wolfrum, E. (2019, September 2). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 59.

DIII-D research towards establishing the scientific basis for future fusion reactors

Petty, C. C. (2019, January 28). Nuclear Fusion.

Dependence on plasma shape and plasma fueling for small edge-localized mode regimes in TCV and ASDEX Upgrade

Labit, B., Eich, T., Harrer, G. F., Wolfrum, E., Bernert, M., Dunne, M. G., … Oliveira, H. D. (2019, May 16). Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 59.