April 2018 | HTPD2018 | Poster
The presence of impurities can significantly affect plasma performance since they can account for substantial radiative power losses. To keep impurity content of the plasma low, mitigating strategies (e.g., wall conditioning by titanium gettering) are employed to help pump neutrals and reduce wall recycling
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October 2014 | APS-DPP | Poster
An absolutely-calibrated 12-chord Bremsstrahlung array has been implemented on C-2 and is being used to infer Z-effective profiles and line-averaged values.
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October 2014 | APS-DPP | Poster
Observation and analysis of broad range spectra allow one to identify impurities, determine charge state distribution and estimate radiative power losses from the core plasma.
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May 2014 | 2014 ICOPS | Presentation
Mechanisms of Ion Rotation require further investigation. Fast Ions and Field Curvature contribute significantly to the pressure balance.
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November 2013 | APS-DPP | Poster
To better understand and quantify the radial momentum balance in the C2 FRC plasma, experiments are performed with the mixture of Helium and Deuterium.
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November 2012 | APS-DPP | Poster
In the C-2 FRC plasma, low impurities densities are essential to keep the radiation losses low as well as to achieve stable high performance FRC (HPF) plasma operation.
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November 2011 | APS-DPP | Poster
An optical tomography system has been developed and implemented in the Flux Coil Generated Field Reversed Configuration (FCG-FRC) at TAE Technologies.
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