November 2025 | R. Jaber | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
TAE Technologies’ current experimental device C-2W (also known as “Norman”) produces and sustains a steady state field reversed configuration plasma through neutral beam injection, edge biasing, and a robust real-time plasma control system.
November 2025 | L. Schmitz | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
Doppler Backscattering hardware has been used to detect the density peak in C-2W FRC plasmas from transmission/reflection transitions.
Main result: The peak density reconstructed from FIR Interferometry (via ABEL inversion) is on average 20-25% lower than the peak density determined via DBS.
October 2024 | S. Dettrick | APS DPP 2024 | Presentation
The C-2W experiment at TAE Technologies demonstrates steady-state field-reversed configurations with enhanced plasma stability and ion heating driven by neutral beams, supported by advanced modeling and diagnostics to optimize performance.
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.
November 2023 | L. Schmitz | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
First direct evidence of FRC toroidal magnetic field fluctuations via Cross-Polarization Scattering
June 2022 | A.Necas | TOFE | Poster
The C-2W experiment is a FRC with the addition of external actuators including NB injection, EB, and magnetic expander divertors to provide SOL pumping