Free-standing targets for applications to ICF

In conventional inertial confinement fusion (ICF), a high power laser syste m is used to compress a cryogenic target and create energy. One of the chal lenges for ICF cryogenics is producing the homogeneous and uniform fuel on the inside surface of a spherical polymer shell. In this report, we will di scuss a conceptual approach based on freestanding targets and the results o f our recent and current developments.