October 2024 | S. Dettrick | APS DPP 2024 | Poster
TAE Technologies reports advancements in plasma performance and stability for C-2W through optimized neutral beam injection, new diagnostic tools, and enhanced modeling frameworks, demonstrating improved ion heating, extended plasma lifetimes, and effective wall conditioning.
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.
October 2024 | Y. Musthafa | APS DPP 2024 | Poster
TAE Technologies’ C-2W device sustains steady-state FRC plasmas using neutral beam injection, edge biasing, and real-time control, with Doppler-shift spectroscopy providing non-intrusive beam characterization to optimize energy capture and plasma performance.
October 2024 | S. Karbashewski | APS DPP 2024 | Poster
TAE Technologies’ C-2W fusion device uses neutral-beam injection to sustain FRC plasma, with magnetic fluctuation measurements from a wall-mounted Mirnov array processed through Fourier-Hilbert methods to analyze azimuthal modes and axial parity.
October 2024 | L. Schmitz | APS DPP 2024 | Poster
TAE’s C-2W FRC shows key differences in fluctuation properties between hydrogen and deuterium plasmas, with increased magnetic fluctuations in FRC and low ion-scale fluctuations in the core. These findings, consistent with simulations, inform the design of diagnostics for the upcoming Copernicus device.
October 2024 | Y. Zhou | APS DPP 2024 | Poster
The poster presents experiments on C-2W showing that suprathermal electrons are accelerated beyond the applied bias voltage, with X-ray energy spectra confirming electron heating correlates with bias voltage and plasma gun fueling.