November 2025 | R. Jaber | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
TAE Technologies’ current experimental device C-2W (also known as “Norman”) produces and sustains a steady state field reversed configuration plasma through neutral beam injection, edge biasing, and a robust real-time plasma control system.
November 2025 | L. Schmitz | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
Doppler Backscattering hardware has been used to detect the density peak in C-2W FRC plasmas from transmission/reflection transitions.
Main result: The peak density reconstructed from FIR Interferometry (via ABEL inversion) is on average 20-25% lower than the peak density determined via DBS.
November 2025 | L. Jian | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
High-fidelity measurements of plasma parameters in the fueling region of the C-2W field-reversed configuration (FRC) device [1] are essential for assessing neutral fueling efficiency, stability characteristics, and tandem confinement properties.
November 2025 | J. Barrett | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
Maintaining ultra-high vacuum is critical for sustaining high-performance field reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas in TAE’s latest fusion device—Norm [1]. Titanium gettering plays a pivotal role in maintaining vessel base pressures of 1 ” 10!” Torr or lower, suppressing impurities in the vessel…
November 2025 | G. Koumarianou | APS DPP 2025 | Presentation
TAE Technologies experimental device “C-2W/Norm” generates beam-driven field-reversed configuration plasmas for 40 ms.
By implementing a new pellet injection geometry, we experimentally demonstrate core fueling with pellets of steady-state FRCs.