Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik

The Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) is a physics institute for the investigation of plasma physics, with the aim of working towards fusion power. The institute also works on surface physics, also with focus on problems of fusion power.

The IPP belongs to the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the Helmholtz Association.

The IPP has two sites: Garching near Munich and Greifswald, both in Germany.

It owns several large devices, namely

• the experimental tokamak ASDEX Upgrade
• the experimental stellarator Wendelstein 7-AS
• the experimental stellarator Wendelstein 7-X (under construction)
• a tandem accelerator

The institute's English website is: http://www.ipp.mpg.de/eng