February 2023 | R. Magee | Nature Communications | Paper
Proton-boron (p11B) fusion is an attractive potential energy source but technically challenging to implement. Developing techniques to realize its potential requires first developing the experimental capability to produce p11B fusion…
December 2022 | K. Araoka | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A double-chord ion Doppler spectroscopy (IDS) system was developed to measure the ion temperature and flow velocity of field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas in the FRC amplification via a translation-collisional merging (FAT-CM) device.
November 2022 | K. Phung | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
The magnetic diagnostics across TAE Technologies’ compact toroid fusion device include 28 internal and 45 external flux loops that measure poloidal flux and axial field strength, 64 three-axis
November 2022 | E. Granstedt | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A 2D imaging instrument has been designed and deployed on C-2W to study the plasma in the expander divertor by simultaneously measuring three neutral helium spectral lines
November 2022 | M. Tobin | Journal of Applied Physics | Paper
The process of associating spectral peaks in emission radiation data with particular charge states of specific elements is a common task in
the field of plasma diagnostics in both laboratory and astrophysical settings.