November 2023 | T. DeHaas | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
The current experimental device, C-2W (Norman), has demonstrated significant progress in FRC performance, reliability, repeatability, and control.
October 2023 | J.A. Romero | IAEA-FEC 2023 | Presentation
C-2W holds a high beta FRC plasma in an easily accessible linear device. Plasma is elongated to improve performance, resulting in axial instability. Feedback control stabilizes and sustains the long plasma in steady state.
October 2023 | H. Gota | IAEA-FEC 2023 | Poster
The NB power-supply system has recently been upgraded to extend the pulse length from 30 ms to 40 ms, which allows for a longer plasma lifetime thus better characterization and further enhancement of FRC performance.
October 2022 | L. Schmitz | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
Doppler Backscattering measurements show that the statistical properties of density fluctuations change significantly near the excluded flux radius
October 2022 | J. Romero | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
TAE technologies has demonstrated for the first time that a long FRC with fusion relevant parameters can be sustained in steady state using feedback control.
October 2022 | T. DeHaas | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
Traditional FRCs are known to be theoretically unstable to an internal tilt mode whose threshold is characterized by the parameter S*/E.