High Voltage Power Supply for Electrode Test Stand
May 2015 | M. Slepchenkov | 2015 SOFE | Poster
The Electrode Test Stand is an experimental device for studying electrode physics contributing to the design of future fusion machines.
Achieving a long-lived high-beta plasma state by energetic beam injection
April 2015 | H. Guo | Nature Communications | Paper
Developing a stable plasma state with high-beta (ratio of plasma to magnetic pressures) is of critical importance for an economic magnetic fusion reactor.
Improved Confinement of C-2 Field Reversed Configuration Plasmas
February 2015 | H. Gota | Fusion Science and Technology | Paper
C-2 is a unique, large compact-toroid (CT) device at TAE Technologies that produces field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas by colliding and merging oppositely directed CTs. Significant progress has recently been made on C-2, achieving ,5 ms stable plasmas with a dramatic improvement in confinement, far beyond the prediction from the conventional FRC scaling.
Feasibility study of microwave electron heating on the C-2 field-reversed configuration device
February 2015 | X. Yang | AIP Conference Proceedings | Paper
Different microwave heating scenarios for the C-2 plasmas have been investigated recently with use of both the Genray ray-racing code and the IPF-FDMC full-wave code, and the study was focused on the excitation of the electron Bernstein wave (EBW) with O-mode launch.