SPPL

The SPPL is a 900 sq ft facility with 6 vacuum chambers, DC, RF and microwave plasma sources, a 40 W pulsed IR laser ablation system, plasma probes, energy analyzers and optical plasma diagnostics, Labview driven PXI racks for data acquisition/control, CNC manufacturing, multiple simulation platforms (COMSOL, LSP, VORPAL), and computing facilities (8 core windows PC, 16 core Linux cluster, Intel quad core with Tesla GPU).

Also known as: Space Power & Propulsion Lab

Primary location: College Park United States