TAE has spent over 20 years working to develop and distribute the cleanest, most sustainable energy source of all time. Our unique approach combines plasma physics and accelerator physics for a brand new pathway to fusion power. Read about our top breakthroughs, and browse the entire research library for over 350 posters and papers published in the world’s leading peer-reviewed journals.
March 2019 | R.M. Magee | Nature Physics | Paper
Efficiently heating a magnetically confined plasma to thermonuclear temperatures remains a central issue in fusion energy research. One well-established technique is to inject beams of neutral particles into the plasma, a process known as neutral beam injection.
February 2018 | J.A. Romero | Nature Communications | Paper
Active control of field reversed configuration (FRC) devices requires a method to determine the flux surface geometry and dynamic properties of the plasma during both transient and steady-state conditions.
November 2017 | H. Gota | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
The TAE Technologies experimental program has demonstrated reliable field-reversed configuration (FRC) formation and sustainment, driven by fast ions via high-power neutral-beam (NB) injection.
July 2017 | E. A. Baltz | Scientific Reports | Paper
TAE and Google have partnered to combine human and machine interaction to further plasma science using their “Optometrist Algorithm.”
December 2016 | L. Schmitz | Nature Communications | Paper
An economic magnetic fusion reactor favours a high ratio of plasma kinetic pressure to magnetic pressure in a well-confined, hot plasma with low thermal losses across the confining magnetic field.
May 2015 | M. Binderbauer | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Conventional field-reversed configurations (FRCs), high-beta, prolate compact toroids embedded in poloidal magnetic fields, face notable stability and confinement concerns.
April 2015 | H. Guo | Nature Communications | Paper
Developing a stable plasma state with high-beta (ratio of plasma to magnetic pressures) is of critical importance for an economic magnetic fusion reactor.
June 2012 | M. Tuszewski | Physical Review Letters | Paper
Field reversed configurations (FRCs) with high confinement are obtained in the C-2 device by combining plasma gun edge biasing and neutral beam injection.
December 2020 | T. Roche | HTPD 2020 | Poster
C-2W (or Norman) has achieved program goals. 60+ individual diagnostic systems. 1000s of channels total utilized to obtain and verify results.
December 2020 | M. Tobin | HTPD 2020 | Poster
First application of Higher Order Singular Value Decomposition for
MHD mode identification using magnetic field measurements
December 2020 | E. Granstedt | HTPD 2020 | Poster
Long axial direction compared to short symmetric azimuthal direction requires many imaging instruments to view the plasma throughout.
December 2020 | V. Sokolov | HTPD 2020 | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called “Norman”), record breaking, advanced beam-driven FRC plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state.
December 2020 | J. Titus | HTPD 2020 | Poster
Four static beams (15 keV) and four tunable beams (15-40 keV) are currently operational on C-2W. A tungsten wire calorimeter was designed with the help of a two-dimensional heat transfer model to measure injected neutral beam power.
December 2020 | E. Parke | HTPD 2020 | Poster
On C-2W (also called “Norman”) record breaking, advanced beam- driven field-reversed-configuration (FRC) plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state
December 2020 | R. Marshall | HTPD 2020 | Poster
9 neutral beam injectors (8 heating beams and 1 diagnostic beam) are installed on the central cell of C-2W.
December 2020 | D. Gupta | HTPD 2020 | Poster
A five channel prototype of main-ion Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy (mCHERS) diagnostic has been developed to measure the deuterium temperature and velocity in the C-2W (Norman) FRC plasma
December 2020 | L. Schmitz | HTPD 2020 | Poster
A four channel DBS system delivers fluctuation data and ExB velocity covering the entire shot. ExB velocity measurements confirm strong ExB
December 2020 | M. Nations | HTPD 2020 | Poster
Edge biasing of annular electrodes in the divertor region is routinely utilized as a boundary control technique to stabilize the FRC in the confinement vessel (CV).
December 2020 | D. Sheftman | HTPD 2020 | Poster
SHS is a Fourier transform spectroscopy method capable of very high throughput compared to standard spectroscopy.
December 2020 | N. Bolte | HTPD 2020 | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called “Norman”)1, record breaking, advanced beam-driven FRC…
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