INSTITUTO DE FUSIÓN NUCLEAR
"GUILLERMO VELARDE"
IFN-GV
The Instituto de Fusión Nuclear (IFN) “Guillermo Velarde” of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is essentially devoted to Nuclear Research (basic and applied) related to both Nuclear Fusion and Fission are key goals in our program.
Using ultrashort laser pulses to “clone” gold nanoparticles
Researchers and students of the Instituto de Fusión Nuclear of the UPM participate in a work, published in the journal Science, which demonstrates that a solution with particles modified by ultra-short laser pulses has an optical quality never seen before. Researchers...
COST CA17126: Towards Understanding and Modelling Intense Electronic Excitation (TUMIEE)
The 1st General Meeting of TUMIEE Action (CA 17126) was held at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales (ETSII) belonging to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid on the 19th and 20th of November 2018. Almost 80 researchers from 20 different countries attended...
Published paper in Scientific Reports on the effects of ion irradiation over metal nanoparticles
Together with groups from Mexico, Argentina and the Autonomous University of Madrid, we have just published in the journal Scientific Reports a study leaded by Dr. Ovidio Peña Rodríguez. The paper, entitled Understanding the ion-induced elongation of silver...