History in short

1997 30.06. ASTERIX IV – Agreement on transfer of the Asterix IV laser system from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Garching) to the Institute of Plasma Physics and the Institute of Physics.
1996 Experimental facility CAPEX – fast capillary discharge in argon-filled capillary („portable“ x-ray laser) begins operation (Karel Koláček, Jiří Schmidt, Milan Řípa, Vladislav Boháček, …).
1996 IPP organizes the 11^th International Conference on High Power Particle Beams, with a worldwide participation.
1995 IPP organizes Prague meeting of the international steering committee of UNESCO project „International Centre for Dense Magnetised Plasma“.
1994-2000 Numerical simulations of anomalous ion diffusion in LF turbulence of plasma in tokamak in a simple model of stationary periodic potential (Ladislav Krlín, Vojtěch Svoboda, Jan Stöckel).
1994 Installation of 4-channel x-ray spectrometer built at IPP on tokamak TCV at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Vojtěch Piffl, Jaroslav Rauš, Aleš Krejčí).
1993 Beginning of studies of gliding discharge in flowing gas (Milan Šimek).
1993 Beginning of studies of corona discharges in flowing liquids and gases (Pavel Šunka, Václav Babický, Martin Člupek, Petr Lukeš).
1990-1992 Fundamental restructuring of IPP: staff reduction by 50%, simplification of management, emphasis on scientific outputs.
1990 01.06. Doc. Ing. Pavel Šunka, CSc. becomes director.
1990-1994 Numerical simulations of interaction of lower hybrid waves with electrons and alpha-particles in tokamak reactor (Pavol Pavlo, Ladislav Krlín).
1990-1994 EURATOM project studies of the thermonuclear experimental reactor ITER (Pavol Pavlo, Ladislav Krlín, Richard Klíma).

EIGHTIES
1989 17.11. 30th anniversary celebration (the date of the Velvet Revolution).
1989 Generator of focused shock waves for disintegration of kidney stones – finished in cooperation with the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University (Pavel Šunka, Jiří Beneš, …).
1988 Theory of Langmuir solitons and strong plasma turbulence – first international co-author in the prestigious series „Plasma Theory Issues“ (Karel Jungwirth).
1985-1990 Deterministic chaos – numerical simulation of non-linear interaction of electromagnetic waves with plasma (Ladislav Krlín, Pavol Pavlo, Zdeněk Gášek).
1985-1989 X-ray analyzer developed and built at IPP confirmed dense plasma heating to keV temperature on the GOL facility (Jaroslav Rauš, Vojtěch Piffl, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk).
1985 Addition of the materials engineering group (Pavel Chráska, …).
1984 Z-pinch experimental facility – operation of discharge with pulsed gas pumping – an intense x-ray source (Aleš Krejčí,…).
1983-1984 Reconstruction of tokamak TM-1-MH to CASTOR – Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences TORus (František Žáček, Jan Stöckel, …).
1982 Using the waveguide structure developed at IPP, a record current of 150-200 kA was generated in tokamak T7 (Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow).

1975 Virtual Cathode of High-Power Electron Beam

1981 Addition of the water-stabilized plasma torch group – transfer from the Aquacentrum company.
1980 Force interaction of HF waves with plasma – fundamental, still cited theoretical studies (Richard Klíma, Václav Petržílka).

1975 Virtual cathode of high power electron beam (REBEX)

 

SEVENTIES
1979 Department of Applied Plasma Physics established: synthesis of NOx, surface layers of Si3N4 (Jindřich Musil, Laco Bárdoš, …).
1978 OREBIA-REX – a complex simulation experiment (Karel Jungwirth).
1978 01.01. RNDr. Zdeněk Tlučhoř becomes director.
1977 Tokamak TM-1-MH – start-up of the first tokamak in Eastern Europe outside the Soviet Union (Vladimír Kopecký, …)
1977 Eighth European Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics in Prague – international recognition of the institute‘s research.
1976 Experimental toroidal facility INTERMEZZO – confirmation of the Klíma’s theory (Jindřich Musil, Jiří Ďatlov, …).
1975 Virtual cathode of high power electron beam – prediction of formation and utilization (Karel Jungwirth); experimental confirmation on the REBEX facility: generation of super-thermal electrons, collective acceleration of ions and efficiency increase of plasma heating using the virtual cathode effect (Pavel Šunka, Jiří Ullschmied)

1975 Virtual cathode of high power electron beam (REBEX)

1973 Fundamental, frequently cited hydrodynamic theory of electric current generation by HF field in plasma (Richard Klíma).
1973 Transformation of Bernstein Waves – still frequently cited theoretical study (Vladimír Kopecký, Josef Preinhaelter).
1972 Capture of electron beam in plasma waves generated by this beam – theoretical prediction of a universal, strongly non-linear effect (Karel Jungwirth); experimental confirmation on the ELMAN II facility (Pavel Šunka, Jiří Ullschmied, Vojtěch Piffl).
1971 Electrostatic oscillations in cold inhomogeneous plasma – the first correct interpretation of the complex roots of the "dispersion function" of cold inhomogeneous plasma (Zdeněk Sedláček).

 

SIXTIES

1967 International Symposium on Beam-Plasma Interaction

1968 Emigration of many important researchers: Miloš Seidl, Jiří Teichmann, Ladislav Šípek, Jan Václavík, Jiří Jančařík, Charley Buxbaum, …

1967 International Symposium on Beam-Plasma Interaction in Prague – success of the Prague beam school. Experimental confirmation of theoretically predicted spectra of beam instabilities (Miloš Seidl, Pavel Šunka).
1967 First National Seminar on Wave Processes in Plasma (since 1971 Czechoslovak Seminar on Plasma Physics and Technology) – first from the series of popular seminars organized by the institute in Liblice, Zvíkov and Prague – latest was the 19th one in 2000, organized together with Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University.
1964 Quasilinear transformation of waves in plasma - theoretical discovery (Karel Jungwirth at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow)
1963 Experimental facility ELMAN I – start-up of linear magnetic plasma trap with an electron beam (Miloš Seidl, …)
1963 Institute of Vacuum Electronics renamed to the Institute of Plasma Physics
1960 Development of medical betatron in cooperation with Chirana, a medical equipment producer (Karel Rytina, Lubomír Pikulík, ...)

 

THE BEGINNING...
Institute of Vacuum Electronics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences is established from a group of 50 former employees of the Research Institute of Vacuum Electrical Technology, particularly from the Dept. of Accelerators; director: Ing. Jan Váňa.