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.
February 2023 | R. Magee | Nature Communications | Paper
Proton-boron (p11B) fusion is an attractive potential energy source but technically challenging to implement. Developing techniques to realize its potential requires first developing the experimental capability to produce p11B fusion…
October 2021 | H. Gota | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
TAE Technologies, Inc. (TAE) is pursuing an alternative approach to magnetically confined fusion, which relies on field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas composed of mostly energetic…
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.
February 2023 | R. Magee | Nature Communications | Paper
Proton-boron (p11B) fusion is an attractive potential energy source but technically challenging to implement. Developing techniques to realize its potential requires first developing the experimental capability to produce p11B fusion…
December 2022 | K. Araoka | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A double-chord ion Doppler spectroscopy (IDS) system was developed to measure the ion temperature and flow velocity of field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas in the FRC amplification via a translation-collisional merging (FAT-CM) device.
November 2022 | K. Phung | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
The magnetic diagnostics across TAE Technologies’ compact toroid fusion device include 28 internal and 45 external flux loops that measure poloidal flux and axial field strength, 64 three-axis
November 2022 | M. Jimenez | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Kinetic effects in plasma flow due to a finite ion temperature and ion reflections in a converging–diverging magnetic nozzle are investigated
with collisionless quasineutral hybrid simulations with kinetic ions and isothermal Boltzmann electrons.
November 2022 | E. Granstedt | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A 2D imaging instrument has been designed and deployed on C-2W to study the plasma in the expander divertor by simultaneously measuring three neutral helium spectral lines
November 2022 | M. Tobin | Journal of Applied Physics | Paper
The process of associating spectral peaks in emission radiation data with particular charge states of specific elements is a common task in
the field of plasma diagnostics in both laboratory and astrophysical settings.
November 2022 | M. Nations | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
In C-2W (also called “Norman”), beam-driven field reversed configuration plasmas embedded in a magnetic mirror are produced and
sustained in a steady state.
October 2022 | T. Matsumoto | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
MCPGs, also known as CTIs, can control the total trapped flux of the ejected spheromak by adjusting the initial stuffing field between the electrodes
October 2022 | S. Kamio | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
Fast ion tail was observed at more than the injection beam energy of 15 keV. In particular, the effective tail temperature of fast deuterium ion was notably high
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 | H. Gota | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
The high-energy particle population is produced by a state-of-the-art tunable energy neutral-beam (NB) injector system
October 2022 | S. Galkin | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
Non-singular, accurate and “fast” (a few seconds on laptop with moderate dense 3D grid) method, based on numerical solution to a few 3D Poisson’s equations
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