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{{Infobox laboratory
| name             = CPMI
| other_name       = Center for Plasma-Material Interactions
| image            = CPMI-Logo.jpg
| caption          = CPMI Logo
| lab_type         = Basic Science, Physics, Engineering
| type             = Experimental, theoretical, modeling
| research_field   = Plasma
| director         = David N. Ruzic
| faculty          = 4
| staff            = 3
| students         = 24
| alumni           = 
| address          = 201 South Goodwin Ave.
| city             = Urbana
| state            = Illinois
| country          = {{wipe|United States}}
| campus           = [[Organization:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]]
| affiliations     = Illinois Plasma Institute, Starfire Industries
| website          = https://cpmi.illinois.edu/about-cpmi/
}}

The Center for Plasma-Material Interactions is a research center that is housed in the Nuclear Radiation Laboratory within the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering at the [[Organization:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]]. The center studies all aspects of plasma-material interactions that are relevant to fusion, semiconductors, and plasma manufacturing. This is achieved through experimental, theoretical and computational methods via and extensive suite of experimental devices. Projects are supported by government grants and commercial partners to further the application and knowledge of plasma physics and engineering to various applications.

== History ==


== List of Current Researchers ==
=== Director ===
Abel Bliss Professor Dr. David N. Ruzic

=== Faculty ===
Donald Biggar Willet Professor Dr. R. Mohan Sankaran

Donlad Biggar Willet Faculty Scholar Associate Professor Dr. Davide Curreli

Research Associate Professor Dr. Daniel Andruczyk

=== Research Engineer ===
Dr. D. Eitan Barlaz

=== Post Doc ===
Dr. Rajesh Ganesan

=== Laboratory Technical Support ===
Michael Williams

=== Graduate Students ===
Currently there are approximately 25 graduate students that are working in the laboratory on all aspects of PMI research. These cover fusion and low temperature plasmas with all the faculty.

=== Undergraduate Students ===
There are over 30 undergraduate students that are working at any one time on the various projects with the graduate students, post-docs and faculty.

=== Affiliated Faculty ===
Dr. Xiuliung Li

Dr. Angus Rockett

Dr. Jean Paul Allain

Dr. Lynford Goddard

Dr. Joshua Rovey

Dr. Gang Logan Liu

=== Adjunct Faculty ===
Dr. Brian. E. Jurczyk

Dr. Robert Stubbers

Dr. Michael Stowell Jr

== Current Research Devices ==
The Center for plasma Material interactions has several experimental devices for doing research.

=== High Temperature Plasma/Fusion Research ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Device
! Anacronym
! Description
|-
! Actively Pumped Open-surface Lithium LOop
| APOLLO || Flowing liquid lithium technology demonstrator consisting of liquid lithium pumps, flowmeters, safety systems, and PFCs all with real-time response
|-
! Compact Liquid Lithium Neutron Source
| CoLLiNS ||  Examine the production of high energy neutrons through the D-Li<sup>7</sup> reactions.
|-
! Hydrogen Desorption Experiment
| HyDE || Distillation column system using thermal desorption as a means to remove hydrogen species from bulk lithium. This system has previously shown success at hydrogen removal in highly saturated lithium.
|-
! Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications
| HIDRA || [[Physics:Stellarator|Stellarator]]/[[Physics:Tokamak|tokamak]] hybrid toroidal [[Physics:Nuclear fusion|fusion]] device. Based on the classical [[Physics:Stellarator|stellarator]] design. Studying PMI and LM PFC's in fusion devices. Former WEGA stellarator. 
|-
! Material Analysis Tool
| HIDRA-MAT || Surface analysis module attached to [[Physics:Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications|HIDRA]] able to perform ''in-vacuo'' measurements of a plasma exposed surface using TDS, LIBS and LIDS.
|-
! Impulse Coatings for Application in Reactor Unprotected Surfaces
| ICARUS || Develop metallic coatings for vulnerable surfaces and make them more robust against lithium exposure. Allow for use of lithium in previously non-compatible environments.
|-
!Lithium Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
| LiAAS || Direct measurement of lithium (atomic) population densities using resonant spectral absorption.
|-
! Lithium Evaporation EXperiment
| LEEX || Lithium evaporation experiments in HIDRA.
|-
! Lithium Vapor Cloud
| LiVC || Vapor cloud measurements in a fusion environment and surface temperature locking in seeded impurity conditions.
|-
! Materials Attacked by Lithium Corrosion Experiment 
| MALiCE || Perform extend (>2000 hr) static lithium corrosion tests at a temperature of 300 <sup>o</sup>C. Materials tested include stainless steels, refractory metals, and incoloys, each possessing some use in fusion applications. Samples are characterized using a variety of optical and chemical techniques, including surface profilometry, ICP-OES, SIMS, FIB, and EDS.
|-
! Material Characterization Test Stand
| MCATS || Allows for rapid testing of lithium wetting on attractive materials over a large range of temperatures from 200 <sup>o</sup>C – 750 <sup>o</sup>C.
|-
! Mock-up Entry Module for [[Physics:Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak|EAST]]
| MEME || Plasma Facing component technology development based on the Lithium mounting box on EAST. Corrosion, erosion and wetting of large PFC surface being studied.
|-
! Spinning Lithium Attacking Potential Substrates
| SLAPS || Investigating the effect of rotating lithium at relevant temperatures and the corrosion behavior of potential fusion materials.
|-
! Solid/Liquid Divertor Experiment
| SLiDE || High vacuum experiment aimed to test a variety of divertor concepts. Uses an electron beam of up to 15 MWm<sup>−2</sup> as a heat flux source with a magnetic field present.
|-
! TUnsten Fuzz Characterization by heliCON
| TUFCON || Used to investigate the formation of tungsten fuzz in helium plasma exposure. More recently, used to determine the effect of hydrogen plasma parameters and radical density on the spitting of microdroplets from liquid metals (tin, lithium, tin-lithium).
|-
! Vacuum Oven
| VO || Design and implementation of a vacuum oven to produce clean samples of SnLi alloys at multiple mass ratios.
|}

=== Processing Plasma ===

=== Industrial Plasma ===

=== Atmospheric Plasma Research ===

=== Plasma Chemistry Research ===

== Affiliated Institutions and Laboratories ==

=== Illinois Plasma Institute ===
The Illinois Plasma Institute (IPI) is an initiative of the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  IPI’s founding was driven by a desire to rethink existing path ways to commercialization of new technologies developed in academic research settings.  Combining the best of both worlds, IPI provides a space where forward thinking industrial partners are able to pair their own research and development staff with academic researchers closer to the underlying science behind a new technology.  Working in concert on a shared platform, advances made it the laboratory may be implemented onto production level equipment shortening the time to adoption in high volume manufacturing.

Complementary to cooperation in the lab, assignees from industrial partners also find easy access to the College’s Masters of Engineering in Plasma Engineering, a professional Masters program designed to prepare workers from a wide variety of technical fields for the unique opportunities that plasma processing has to offer.

=== Starfire Industries ===

=== Plasma Curriculum within NPRE ===
The Plasma curriculum within the NPRE department and taught by faculty members of CPMI is quite extensive and comprehensive. It offers topics covering not only basic plasma science but also plasma engineering.

NPRE 321 - Introduction to Plasmas and Applications

NPRE 397 - Independent Study

NPRE 421 - Plasma and Fusion

NPRE 423 - Plasma Laboratory

NPRE 429 - Plasma Engineering

NPRE 498 - Special Topics

NPRE 522 - Controlled Fusion Systems

NPRE 523 - Plasma Waves

NPRE 524 - Computational Plasmas (currently as NPRE 598))

NPRE 526 - Plasma Material Interactions

NPRE 527 - Plasma Technology and Gaseous Electronics

NPRE 428/528 - Fusion Engineering, Device and Operations (currently as NPRE 498)

NPRE 529 - Plasma Chemistry (currently at NPRE 598)

NPRE 598 - Special Topics

== Master of Engineering in Plasma Engineering ==
A Professional Masters degree is offered within CPMI for anyone wanting to have an advanced degree in plasma engineering but not wanting to go to a PhD

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://cpmi.illinois.edu/2016/04/26/hidra-hybrid-illinois-device-for-research-and-applications/ Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications (HIDRA)]
* [https://cpmi.illinois.edu/ Center for Plasma Material Interactions (CPMI)]
* [https://npre.illinois.edu/ Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering (NPRE)]
* [https://illinois.edu/ University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]
* [https://ipi.illinois.edu/ Illinois Plasma Institute]

{{Fusion experiments}}

[[Category:Stellarators]]
[[Category:Tokamaks]]

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