Three main conditions are necessary for a controlled thermonuclear fusion: The temperature must be hot enough to allow the ions of deuterium and tritium to have enough kinetic energy to overcome the ...

The separation between these energy levels must be greater than the thermal energy for Coulomb blockade to be observable. Tunnel barriers are thin insulating layers that separate the nanostructure ...

nuclear barrier pentetration; angular momentum, Coulomb barrier, alpha decay and systematics, fission. (offered as 95.561 for graduate credit).