May 2011 | E. Garate | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
A high temperature field reversed configuration (FRC) has been produced in the newly built, world’s largest compact toroid (CT) facility, C-2, by colliding and merging two high-β CTs produced using the advanced field-reversed θ-pinch technology.
March 2011 | A. Smirnov | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
An incomplete neutral beam capture can degrade the plasma performance in neutral beam driven plasma machines.
January 2011 | M. Tuszewski | Transactions of Fusion Science and Technology | Paper
The Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) is a high-beta Compact Toroid that includes closed and open field line regions of poloidal magnetic field.
October 2010 | D. Gupta | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
Two Doppler spectroscopy diagnostics with complementary capabilities are developed to measure the ion temperatures and velocities of FRC plasmas in the C-2 device.
October 2010 | D. Gupta | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
One aim of the flux-coil generated field reversed configuration at TAE Technologies TAE is to establish the plasma where the ion rotational energy is greater than the ion thermal energy.