HEIGHTS Simulation Package

The multi and inter-disciplinary High Energy Interaction with General Heterogeneous Target Systems (HEIGHTS) simulation package, developed initially at Argonne National Laboratory and now continuing at Purdue, has been used for fusion as well as numerous other scientific and engineering research areas.  These areas include: Fusion Science/Energy (i.e., Plasma/Surface Interactions in Tokamak Reactors, Target Implosion and cavity clearing dynamics in Inertial Confinement Reactors), Nuclear Physics Program: (High-Power Targets for rare isotope/neutron productions), High Energy Physics Program: (Muon-Collider and Neutrino Factory Projects), Space Program: (Sun Probe Missions, Space-Debris Clean-up), Medical Applications: (Electric shock propagation due to arching), Industrial Applications: (e.g., Surface Modification of Materials by Plasma, Laser-Beam Applications), Semiconductor Applications: (discharge and laser produced plasma for EUV lithography, Collector optics development for EUV Lithography).

Recent HEIGHTS benchmarking applicable to EUV lithography (laser and discharge produced plasma sources), ITER fusion device can be found in the following articles

• Physics of Plasmas 20, 053105 2013. PDF

• Nuclear Fusion 53, 073023 2013. link

• J. Micro/Nanolith MEMS MOEMS 8, 041503 2009. PDF

• Nuclear Fusion 49, 095003 2009. link

• Journal of Nuclear Materials 390-391, 777-780 2009. PDF

• Nuclear Fusion 48, 115008 2008. link

For further details of HEIGTHS please contact: hassanein@purdue.edu