Francis
F. Chen
, Professor Emeritus
Electrical
Engineering Department
University of California, Los Angeles 90095-1594
(310)
825-5624 FAX: (310)
206-8495
E-mail: ffchen@ee.ucla.edu
Education
Ph.D. 1954
Physics, Harvard University
M.A. 1953 Physics,
Harvard University
A.B. 1950
Astronomy, Harvard University
Professional Experience
1994-present: Professor Emeritus,
UCLA
1969-1994 Professor, UCLA
Electrical Engineering
1985 Visiting scientist, Australia
and Japan
1977 Visiting scientist, Lausanne,
Switzerland
1962-63 Visiting scientist, Fontenay-aux-Roses,
France
1954-69 Senior Research Physicist,
Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory
Honors and Awards
1947 Wendell Scholar, Harvard Class of '50
1948 Phi Beta Kappa
1968 Fellow, American Physical
Society
1980 Fellow, IEEE; Life Fellow, 2003
1983 Chairman, APS Division of Plasma
Physics
1994 IEEE Plasma Science and
Applications Award
1995
Maxwell Prize. American Physical Society
1999 Fellow, Institute of Physics, UK
2009 The
Plasma Prize, AVS Plasma Science and Technology Division
2010
Fellow, American Vacuum Society
2015
Dickson Emeriti Professorship
Research Fields
1.
Experimental high-energy physics: p -p scattering at
1 GeV.
2.
Magnetic confinement fusion: stellarator experiments.
3.
Plasma diagnostics, especially Langmuir probes, lasers.
4. Basic
plasma physics: anomalous diffusion, drift waves,
Q-machines, shear
stabilization, rf antennas and waves,
sheaths, gas discharges, plasma waves and
instabilities,
plasma sources.
5.
Inertial confinement fusion and laser-plasma interactions:
theory and experiment on
stimulated Brillouin and
Raman scattering, optical mixing, filamentation,
and
high-density plasma sources.
6. Laser
accelerators and related topics.
7. Low
temperature plasma physics for industrial
applications.
Professional Activities (partial)
1972-77 Chairman, Fusion Advisory
Committee,
Electric Power Research Institute
1975 Member, Hafstad Committee for
Laser Fusion
1973 Associate Editor, Physics of
Fluids
1981 Founder, University Fusion
Association
1984-88 Editorial Board, Plasma
Physics and
Controlled Fusion
1993-94 Chair, Naval Studies Board
Panel on Plasma
Processing
Selected publications
F.F. Chen, Introduction to Plasma
Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2nd ed., Vol. 1: "Plasma Physics"
(Plenum Press,
New York, 1984).
F.F. Chen, An Indispensable Truth,
How Fusion Power Can Save the Planet (Springer, 2011).
