Parallel shock-relevant whistler waves and reflected ions driven by a coaxial plasma gun

August 2026 | D.A. Endrizzi (UW-Madison) | Journal of Plasmas Physics | Paper

How do collisionless shocks generate the dissipation necessary to satisfy mass, momentum and energy continuity? For perpendicular shocks, ion reflection and
gyration back to the layer are responsible for dissipation beyond…

Overview of Beam Driven FRCs at TAE

November 2025 | S. Dettrick | 2025 US-Japan FRC Workshop | Presentation

Non-inductive start-up, ramp-up, and sustainment of FRC using neutral beams. Experimental validation of Improved Tilt Stability with Neutral Beams. Neutral
Beams can drive Energetic Particle Modes in Steady State FRC. Electrode biasing improves MHD…

Experimental and Theoretical Progress on Beam-Driven FRCs in the C-2W Device

November 2025 | M. Nations | APS DPP 2025 | Poster

TAE Technologies’ C-2W device has achieved stable, beam-driven Field-Reversed Configurations (FRCs) maintained for up to 40 ms. Recent advances include real-time plasma control, enhanced fueling via pellets and compact toroids, and the commissioning of new cyclotron resonance heating systems.

RF dispersion relations in FRC geometries and HHFW regime

February 2024 | F. Ceccherini | Physics of Plasmas | Paper

Field reversed configurations (FRC) are characterized by a magnetic field topology, which exhibits the inversion of the external magnetic field through plasma sustained current and the subsequent presence of a null field surface