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.
December 2020 | G. Player | HTPD 2020 | Poster
Utilizing machine learning to enable a generalizable in situ calibration method. We present an in situ calibration of the C-2W electromagnetic NPA
November 2020 | L. Schmitz | APS-DPP | Presentation
C-2W is a beam-driven, sustained field-reversed configuration that allows systematic transport studies
November 2020 | M. Kaur | APS-DPP | Presentation
Analysis of existing data suggests additional electronKa heating, but dedicated dynamic bias experiments at high 𝑇! are required
November 2020 | G. Player | APS-DPP | Presentation
Fast Ion Orbits in FRCs • Classifying Fast Ion Orbits • C-2W Fast Ion Orbit Topology • Diagnosing Orbit Types
November 2020 | E. Granstedt | APS-DPP | Presentation
Norman plasma consists of an FRC embedded in a magnetic mirror SOL. Neutral particle transport & fast ion modeling indicate gas injection…
November 2020 | X. Yang | APS-DPP | Presentation
Why do we use HHFW electron heating? – Simulation survey demonstrates that HHFW is a promising electron heating scenario for FRC plasma
November 2020 | T. Roche | APS-DPP | Presentation
C-2W (or Norman) has achieved its program goals: 60+ individual diagnostic systems. 1000s of channels total utilized to obtain & verify results
November 2020 | M. Griswold | APS-DPP | Presentation
FRC plasma embedded in a mirror- confined scrape-off layer. Large-orbit fast ions from Neutral Beam Injection heat and stabilize the plasma.
November 2020 | S. Galkin | APS-DPP | Presentation
Motivation and requirements
• Reduced MHD model
• Domain discretization
• Simulation Bandwidth control
• Time integration scheme
November 2020 | A. Necas | APS-DPP | Poster
MFE* devices need internal field measurements, B(r). Pulsed Polarimetry provides B, ne (μneBds). Based on a FIR (150 𝜇𝑚 or 2 THz) radiation
November 2020 | C. Lau | APS-DPP | Poster
Goal: understand confinement in current devices; predict confinement in future devices
November 2020 | K. Zhai | APS-DPP | Poster
C-2W is an advanced beam driven Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) fusion device [1], in which plasma sustainment with total temperature at 3keV has been demonstrated.
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