The LPP federates research activities on various aspects of plasma physics. It is structured into four teams: magnetic confinement fusion plasma, cold plasmas, pulsed hot plasmas and space plasmas.
As a flagship laboratory, the LPP is heavily involved in major national and international projects. It stands out for its many contributions to thermonuclear fusion missions as part of the ITER project, as well as to space exploration and space weather as part of space agencies (CNES, ESA, NASA, JAXA (Japan), CNSA (China) and IKI (Russia)). The laboratory's activities also target socio-economic players in the fields of microelectronics (plasma surface treatment), the environment (plasma depollution processes), medicine (cancer treatment using plasma therapy) and aerospace (electric propulsion).
Innovation themes
- Energy, Ecology, Environment
- Instrumentation, electronics, robotics and cobotics
- Complex systems and software engineering
- Modelling and simulation
- Quality of life - Health - Food
- Medical equipment (biophotonics, radiation, etc.)
- Chemistry - Materials
- Propulsion
- Aeronautics - Aerospace - Defence
- Climate (observation - monitoring), environmental management, eco system
- Plasma
- Energy
- Industrial process engineering
- New energy sources and production system
- Embedded systems, critical systems
- Materials and processes
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Applications sectors
- Energy
- Health / wellness
- Aeronautics / Aerospace
- Electronic / photonics
- Materials (Metal, Glass, Ceramic, Composite...)
Total number of employees
Number of researchers : 35
Number of doctoral students : 20
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