May 2022 | T.Roche | HTPD | Poster
This fully operational experiment is coupled with a fully operational suite of advanced diagnostic systems. The suite consists of 60+ individual systems spanning 20 categories, including: magnetic sensors, Thomson scattering…
November 2021 | J. Romero | ITC30 | Presentation
C-2W is the world’s first steady-state FRC with fusion relevant parameters. C-2W machine and diagnostics are upgraded often in response to the research needs.
November 2021 | V. Sokolov | APS-DPP 2021 | Poster
The end bias electrode system provides stabilization and heating of the high-beta axisymmetric plasmas by inducing azimuthal plasma rotation via the application of radial electric fields.
November 2021 | T. Roche | APS-DPP 2021 | Poster
TAE Technologies, Inc. (TAE) pursues an alternate approach to magnetically-confined fusion, relying on field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas.
November 2021 | T. DeHaas | APS-DPP 2021 | Poster
Traditional FRCs are known to be theoretically unstable to an internal tilt mode whose threshold is characterized by the parameter S*/E.
November 2021 | S. Dettrick | APS-DPP 2021 | Poster
An expander divertor can be used to expand the Scrape-Off-Layer flux-tube of a linear device to arbitrary size, providing reduced energy flux to the wall, increased pumping capacity, formation of a pre-sheath for electrostatic confinement of electrons, and…