Thesis - Table of Contents Experimental Setup and Overview of the Temperature Filament Large Plasma Device The Large Plasma Device (LAPD-U), part of the Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF) at UCLA, provides an ideal parameter regime in which to perform this experimental investigation. The present device, as shown in Fig. 2.1 , is a larger version of the one described in Gekelman et al. [1991] . Figure 2.1: Dimensional schematic of the LAPD-U, illustrating the long axial exte