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.
October 2024 | H. Gota | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
TAE Technologies’ fifth-generation fusion device, C-2W (also called ‘Norman’), is the world’s largest compact-toroid device and has made significant progress in field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma performance.
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.”
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.
June 2014 | D. Gupta | HTPD | Poster
In a FRC, ion temperature profiles dynamics is crucial to understand the FRC confinement.
May 2014 | D. Osin | 2014 ICOPS | Presentation
Mechanisms of Ion Rotation require further investigation. Fast Ions and Field Curvature contribute significantly to the pressure balance.
March 2014 | D. Barnes | 2014 Sherwood | Presentation
June 2014 | H.U. Rahman | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
We simulate a field-reversed configuration (FRC), produced by an “inductively driven” FRC experiment; comprised of a central-flux coil and exterior-limiter coil. To account for the plasma kinetic behavior, a standard 2-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic code is modified to preserve the azimuthal, two-fluid behavior.
February 2014 | D. Barnes | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Rotationally driven modes of long systems with dominantly axial magnetic field are considered. We apply the incompressible model and order axial wavenumber small. A recently developed gyro-viscous model is incorporated. A one-dimensional equilibrium is assumed, but radial profiles are arbitrary.
February 2014 | D. Barnes | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Rotationally driven modes of long systems with dominantly axial magnetic field are considered. An
November 2013 | D. Osin | APS-DPP | Poster
In FRC plasmas impurity ions may not be in thermal and rotational equilibria.
November 2013 | M. Onofri | APS-DPP | Poster
The evolution of a Field Reversed Configuration with neutral beam injection is studied using the Q2D code.
November 2013 | A. Necas | APS-DPP | Poster
Gyroviscous (GV) stress for weakly magnetized plasma has been implemented in the NIMROD code to study Hall and FLR effects on FRC stability with emphasis on the rotational modes.
November 2013 | S. Gupta | APS-DPP | Poster
The Neutral beam current drive mechanism, originally known as Ohkawa Current, is investigated for FRC plasmas using small amounts of high Z impurities.
November 2013 | D. Gupta | APS-DPP | Poster
To better understand and quantify the radial momentum balance in the C2 FRC plasma, experiments are performed with the mixture of Helium and Deuterium.
November 2013 | E. Garate | APS-DPP | Poster
Field reversed configurations (FRC) have closed field line regions in which the ratio of plasma to electron cyclotron frequency is greater than 1.
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