What is the Zebra Pulsed Power Lab?
The Zebra Pulsed Power Lab (ZPPL) was established by the University of Nevada, Reno and dedicated in 2000. Supported primarily by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), its mission is to conduct research and to train students in the field of high-energy-density (HED) science, the study of the behavior of matter subject to conditions of extreme temperature and density. This rapidly developing field explores the fourth state of matter, called plasma, under conditions similar to those occurring in the interiors of stars, nuclear fusion reactors, and lightning bolts.
Recent news from the Department of Physics

Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems conference hosted at Lake Tahoe
Scientists and students spent a week on Tahoe’s south shore discussing and sharing cutting-edge physics research

Jaya Sicard receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Sicard will study high energy density science at UC Berkeley