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Plasma shaping
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<p><a href="/facts/Magnetic_confinement_fusion/ThThVDpr">Magnetically confined</a> fusion <a href="/facts/Plasma_(physics)/1d3btMVU">plasmas</a> such as those generated in <a href="/facts/Tokamak/kDtb8Bsw">tokamaks</a> and <a href="/facts/Stellarator/HXSJF0Cz">stellarators</a> are characterized by a typical shape. Plasma shaping is the study of the plasma shape in such devices, and is particularly important for next step fusion devices such as <a href="/facts/ITER/SkpWL87b">ITER</a>. This shape is conditioning partly the performance of the plasma. Tokamaks, in particular, are <a href="/facts/Axisymmetric/bpvJqcnS">axisymmetric</a> devices, and therefore one can completely define the shape of the plasma by its <a href="/facts/Cross_section_(geometry)/g5R1c6v2">cross-section</a>. </p>