Robert L. Merlino
University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy
Experimental plasma physics
![q machine](/sites/merlino.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2020-02/Q-machine.png?h=edfda2ae&itok=1JTnoBWP)
Lab Facilities
- Facilities include two lab rooms with three plasma chambers
- Major equipment includes two Q-machines with magnetic field up to 0.5 T; each machine is dedicated to a single graduate student
- Students develop skills including: vacuum, electronics, data acquisition, image analysis, instrument fabrication