October 2024 | S. Vargas Giraldo | APS DPP 2024 | Poster
Wall conditioning techniques, including Glow Discharge Cleaning (GDC) and titanium arc deposition, have been essential in maintaining optimal vacuum conditions and reducing recovery time in the C-2W fusion device, supporting faster and more efficient plasma operations.
August 2024 | K. Ogawa | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
Aneutronic fusion using commonly available fuel such as hydrogen and boron 11 (11B) is one of
the most attractive potential energy sources. On the other hand, it requires 30 times higher
temperature than deuterium–tritium fusion in a thermonuclear fusion reactor condition.
November 2023 | J. Barrett | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Restoring wall conditions in C-2W (Norman)—TAE Technologies’ present fusion device—after a vent is critical to
produce high quality field-reverse configuration (FRC) plasmas
November 2022 | M. Nations | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
In C-2W (also called “Norman”), beam-driven field reversed configuration plasmas embedded in a magnetic mirror are produced and
sustained in a steady state.
October 2022 | D. Kobayashi (Nihon) | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
In the collisional merging formation process, two initial FRC-like plasmoids are accelerated toward each other by a magnetic pressure gradient.
May 2021 | M. Nations | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
In TAE Technologies’ C-2W experiment, electrode biasing is utilized for boundary control of a field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma embedded in a magnetic mirror.