December 2020 | D. Gupta | HTPD 2020 | Poster
A five channel prototype of main-ion Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy (mCHERS) diagnostic has been developed to measure the deuterium temperature and velocity in the C-2W (Norman) FRC plasma
December 2020 | M. Nations | HTPD 2020 | Poster
Edge biasing of annular electrodes in the divertor region is routinely utilized as a boundary control technique to stabilize the FRC in the confinement vessel (CV).
November 2020 | B. Nicks | APS-DPP | Poster
Can FRCs (field-reversed configurations) be shown to be a preferred state of plasma under certain conditions?
November 2020 | R. Smith | APS-DPP | Poster
The mid-plane multi-chord FIR interferometer system on the Norman device is used in conjunction with the equilibrium (EQ) field coils and trim coil set to move the plasma axially
October 2019 | K. Zhai | APS-DPP | Poster
30 ms steady state C-2W plasma sustainment has been achieved. 400 eV record electron temperature has been demonstrated.
October 2019 | M. Beall | APS-DPP | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called “Norman”) [1], record breaking, advanced beam-driven field reversed configuration (FRC)