FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
29 June 2026 | Edinburgh, Scotland
Issued at the 52nd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Alpha Ring Launches Alpha-E Family of Fusion and Plasma Devices, Expanding Access to Hands-On Teaching and Research
Three purpose-built instruments — Alpha-E Plasma, Alpha-E Prime, and Alpha-E Pro — bring real fusion and plasma experimentation into university teaching labs and research programmes at price points and form factors that have not previously existed in the market.
EDINBURGH, 29 June 2026 — Alpha Ring International (ARI), a developer of compact fusion and plasma devices, today announced the Alpha-E Family: a tiered portfolio of three instruments designed to bring hands-on fusion and plasma experimentation within reach of university teaching programmes, physics and engineering departments, and research laboratories worldwide. The announcement marks ARI's formal entry into the education device market and coincides with the company's participation in the 52nd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, where an Alpha-E Plasma device is on demonstration at the company's booth.
The Alpha-E Family builds on Alpha Ring's decade of experience developing compact fusion technology. It represents a deliberate expansion from a single research instrument into a structured product line, with each device engineered to serve a distinct institution type, budget, and use case.
Three Instruments, Three Markets
The Alpha-E Plasma is a compact plasma physics system priced at €28,000, designed for university programmes, community colleges, and technical institutes introducing students to plasma science for the first time. The device enables students to generate, observe, and diagnose plasma under variable conditions — including optical emission spectroscopy and Langmuir probe measurements — within a form factor and budget accessible at the departmental level.
The Alpha-E Prime is a benchtop particle accelerator priced at €46,000 and designed for teaching-oriented university physics and nuclear engineering departments. It enables hands-on deuterium-deuterium fusion experiments, direct neutron detection, and integrated diagnostics, giving students the experience of working with a real fusion system rather than a simulation.
The Alpha-E Pro is ARI's research-grade instrument, available by configuration and priced accordingly. It is designed for university research groups, corporations, and national laboratories conducting detector calibration, nuclear activation studies, and fusion science experiments that require higher beam energies and greater configurability than a standard teaching device can provide.
Proven in the Classroom
Sofia University in Bulgaria has been operating an Alpha-E Pro device in its Department of Radiophysics and Electronics since 2024, and more recently added an Alpha-E Plasma device. The partnership has produced a full undergraduate course — Introduction to Nuclear Fusion Systems — which launched to full enrollment in early 2025 and has since supported bachelor-level thesis research using the device.
Associate Professor Stiliyan Lishev, who leads the department at Sofia University and oversees the Alpha-E programme, has worked extensively with the device in student-led sessions.
“What the Alpha-E gives students is a safe sandbox for developing plasma physics intuition through direct experimentation. They can change a parameter, watch what happens in the measurements, and start to understand the physics that drives the result. Some of those results are counterintuitive, and those moments are where the real learning happens. The device is compact and flexible. It is not a single-use tool.
When my students struck plasma for the first time, it was a genuine wow moment. To them, the Alpha-E devices are like a spaceship — something new, modern, and genuinely theirs to work with. They become proactive in a way they simply are not with other equipment.”
— Associate Professor Stiliyan Lishev, Head of Radiophysics and Electronics, Sofia University, Bulgaria
A Quote from Alpha Ring US's CEO
“Fusion science is moving out of the realm of national facilities and into university labs — and that transition requires instruments designed for teaching, not adapted from research. The Alpha-E Family is our answer to that need. Each product in the family was designed around what we heard directly from faculty: that students need to generate real data, observe real phenomena, and build genuine intuition about how plasma and fusion systems behave. We believe that every physics and nuclear engineering programme that is serious about preparing the next generation of scientists and engineers should have access to a device like this. That is what the Alpha-E Family is built to make possible.”
— Charles Gary, CEO, Alpha Ring US
Pricing and Availability
The Alpha-E family of products is available now, starting at €28,000. All three instruments are available for delivery to institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, with regulatory compliance documentation provided for each market.
About Alpha Ring International
Alpha Ring International is a developer of compact fusion and plasma instruments for the education, research, and energy markets. The company designs and manufactures devices that enable hands-on work with real fusion and plasma physics at the department level. Alpha Ring operates globally and has installations at universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
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