November 2020 | L. Steinhauer | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
A reconstructor tool is developed for fast computation of fully two-dimensional equilibria of FRCs that are consistent with routine magnetic data from experiments.
October 2020 | C. Scott | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
Energetic beams excite semi-repetitive modes (‘staircase mode’) in the field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma.
September 2020 | X. Yang | AIP Conference Proceedings | Paper
Simulation survey performed at TAE Technologies, has demonstrated that HHFW heating is a promising scenario to heat core electrons of FRC plasma.
August 2020 | C. Lau | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
A quasi-neutral blended drift-Lorentz particle model of the field-reversed configuration (FRC) has been developed and implemented in the particle-in-cell code named ANC.
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 | Erik Trask | APS-DPP | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called “Norman”)[1], record breaking, advanced beam-driven field reversed configuration (FRC)