November 2021 | V. Sokolov | APS-DPP 2021 | Poster
The end bias electrode system provides stabilization and heating of the high-beta axisymmetric plasmas by inducing azimuthal plasma rotation via the application of radial electric fields.
November 2021 | T. Roche | APS-DPP 2021 | Poster
TAE Technologies, Inc. (TAE) pursues an alternate approach to magnetically-confined fusion, relying on field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas.
November 2021 | T. DeHaas | APS-DPP 2021 | Poster
Traditional FRCs are known to be theoretically unstable to an internal tilt mode whose threshold is characterized by the parameter S*/E.
November 2021 | R. Smith | APS-DPP 2021 | Poster
Copernicus will be the next generation field reversed configuration (FRC) device at TAE Technologies.
November 2021 | R. Marshall | APS-DPP 2021 | Poster
One of the newest diagnostics for the C-2W plasma is main ion CHarge Exchange Recombination
Spectroscopy(mCHERS) to measure the main ion temperature and velocity.