Online picture archive
IPP provides journalists with photos online free of charge. To download please click on the picture's title.
Wendelstein 7-X
w7x_spulen_plasma.eps
Computer graphics: Magnet coils and plasma of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device in Greifswald (Graphics: MPI for Plasma Physics)
Download
w7x_kryostat_jpg
Computer graphics: Cryostat, magnet coils and plasma of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device. (Graphics: MPI for Plasma Physics)
Download
w7x_schema.jpg
Computer graphics: Cryostat, magnet coils, support structure and plasma vessel of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device. (Graphics: MPI for Plasma Physics)
Download
w7x_schema_2.png
Computer graphics: Plasma vessel and magnet coils of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device (Graphics: MPI for Plasma Physics)
Download
1_6_w7x.png
Sequence, picture 1: Computer graphics: plasma vessel of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device. (Graphics: MPI for Plasma Physics)
Download
2_6_w7x.png
Sequence, picture 2: Computer graphics: Plasma vessel and superconducting magnet coils of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device. (Grafics: MPI for Plasma Physics)
Download
3_6_w7x.png
Sequence, picture 3 – computer graphics: Plasma vessel and superconducting stellarator magnet coils as well as planar magnet coils of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device. (Graphics: MPI for Plasma Physics)
Download
4_6_w7x.png
Sequence, picture 4 – computer graphics: Plasma vessel, superconducting stellarator magnet coils, planar magnet coils, cooling pipes, current leads and support structure of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device. (Graphics: MPI for Plasma Physics)
Download
5_6_w7x.png
Sequence, picture 5 – computer graphics: Plasma vessel, superconducting stellarator magnet coils, planar magnet coils, support structure and cryostat of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device. (Graphics: MPI for Plasma Physics)
Download
6_6_w7x.png
Sequence, picture 6 – computer graphics: The outer vessel, the cryostat, of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device. (Graphics: MPI for Plasma Physics)
Download
w7x_spule.tif
One of a total of 50 stellarator magnet coils for Wendelstein 7-X (Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Beate Kemnitz)
Download
W7X_gefaess_6.jpg
Segment of the plasma vessel for Wendelstein 7-X during production.
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Wolfgang Filser)
Download
w7x_montage.jpg
Assembly of a half-module: Suspended in a rotatable support structure, the first of 50 stellarator magnet coils is strung onto a segment of the plasma vessel. (Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Beate Kemnitz)
Download
w7x_aussengefaess_1.tif
One of the five sections of the outer vessel of Wendelstein 7-X during production.
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Wolfgang Filser)
Download
w7x_gefaess_aussen_2.tif
One of the five sections of the outer vessel of Wendelstein 7-X during production.
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Wolfgang Filser)
Download
w7x_halbmodul.jpg
A completed half-module of Wendelstein 7-X on the way to the second pre-assembly rig (Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Beate Kemnitz)
Download
w7x_modul.jpg
One of the five modules during transport to its final position on the machine foundation. (Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Beate Kemnitz)
Download
w7x_torus_innen.jpg
View inside one of the modules. Visible are the plasma vessel, a magnet coil, the outer casing, and numerous ducts for coolant and leads for power. (Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Wolfgang Filser)
Download
w7x_torus_aussen.jpg
All five modules are installed on the machine’s foundation (December 2011). The missing final section of the outer casing (top front) will complete the core of the device. (Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Anja Ullmann)
Download
w7x_torus_mai_2013.jpg
The last open seam of the outer steel casing of Wendelstein 7-X was closed at the end of May 2013. The core of the device was then structurally complete.
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Anja Ullmann)
Download
w7x_aussen_2015.jpg
Wendelstein 7-X in December 2015.
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Torsten Bräuer)
Download
w7x_torus_aussen_2017
View of Wendelstein 7-X with its numerous diagnostics (April 2017)
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Jan Michael Hosan)
Download
W7X_Torus_aussen_2021_Halle.jpg
View of Wendelstein 7-X in November 2021 (Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Jan Michael Hosan)
Download
Torus_W7X_2021.jpg
Wendelstein 7-X in November 2021 (Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Jan Michael Hosan)
Download
w7x_plasmagefaess.jpg
View into the plasma vessel Wendelstein 7-X (2015)
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Thorsten Bräuer)
Download
w7x_plasmagefaess_2017
Assembly of graphite tiles in the plasma vessel of Wendelstein 7-X (2017)
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Jan Michael Hosan)
Download
W7X_Plasmagefaess_2021.jpg
Final assembly work in the plasma vessel of Wendelstein 7-X im November 2021
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Jan Michael Hosan)
Download
plasmagefaess_W7X_2021_ohne_Person.jpg
View into the plasma vessel of Wendelstein 7-X (November 2021)
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Jan Michael Hosan)
Download
w7x_poincare_plot.jpg
Testing of the Wendelstein 7-X magnetic field (July 2015): the fluorescent rod makes closed, nested magnetic surfaces visible – the magnetic field cage for the plasma is exactly as it should be.
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Matthias Otte)
Download
w7x_island_chain.jpg
Flux surface diagnostics for Wendelstein 7-X (July 2015): the photograph combines the tracer of an electron beam on its multiple circulation along a field line through the plasma vessel with the image points left behind by a fluorescent rod which has been moved through the image plane.
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics, Matthias Otte)
Download
w7x_plasma_15_c.jpg
(coloured b/w photo)
w7x_plasma_15.tif
(original b/w photo)
10 December 2015: The first plasma in Wendelstein 7-X. It consisted of about one milligram of helium and reached a temperature of one million degrees Celsius. (Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics)
Download
w7x_plasma_16_c.tif
(coloured b/w photo)
w7x_plasma_16.tif
(original b/w photo)
3 February 2016: The first hydrogen plasma in Wendelstein 7-X. It reached a temperature of 80 million degrees Celsius. (Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics/Wigner RCP)
Download
plasma_W7X.jpg
Plasma image from 25 June 2018
(Photo: MPI for Plasma Physics/Wigner RCP)