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.
May 2026 | S. Karbashewski | Physical Review Letters | Paper
We report observations of an energetic-particle mode (EPM) in a linear plasma device that corresponds to an axial bounce resonance of fast ions sourced from neutral-beam injection (NBI). In our experiment, novel dynamic shaping of a magnetic mirror field reduces the distance …
April 2025 | T. Roche | Nature Communications | Paper
We report evidence of successful generation of field-reversed configuration plasmas by neutral beam injection. This is achieved by trapping the steady state beams in an initial seed plasma, hence providing a direct source of toroidally directed energetic ion current and increase plasma …
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.
October 2022 | A. Bondarenko | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
Record breaking, advanced beam-driven FRC plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state utilizing variable energy neutral beams (15 – 40 keV, total power up to 20 MW)
October 2022 | R. Smith | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
Both the TAE Norman and the future TAE Copernicus devices can provide a platform to implement several of the microwave diagnostics currently employed on Tokamak devices
October 2022 | C. Deng | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
TAE Technologies current experimental device, record breaking, advanced beam-driven, high temperature FRC plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state utilizing variable energy neutral beams, advanced divertors, end bias electrodes, and an active plasma control system.
October 2022 | K. Zhai | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
To better
understand the machine performance and to prepare for the design of TAE’s next generation
experiment Copernicus, a series of experiments with different field configuration and fueling
schemes have been carried out.
October 2022 | J. Romero | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
TAE technologies has demonstrated for the first time that a long FRC with fusion relevant parameters can be sustained in steady state using feedback control.
October 2022 | T. Roche | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
The experimental device C-2W, also known as Norman, was initially optimized in early 2019 to performance levels up to and exceeding its specified design points
October 2022 | E. Parke | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
On C-2W (also called “Norman”) record-breaking, advanced beam-driven fieldreversed-configuration (FRC) plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state
October 2022 | T. DeHaas | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
Traditional FRCs are known to be theoretically unstable to an internal tilt mode whose threshold is characterized by the parameter S*/E.
October 2022 | M. Nations | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
Measured helium impurity ion azimuthal velocity and temperature using Doppler spectroscopy in C-2W’s divertor region for the first time
October 2022 | R. Marshall | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A prototype mCHERS diagnostic is providing measurements of the main-ion temperature and velocity in the C-2W field reversed configuration plasma
October 2022 | D. Kobayashi (Nihon) | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
In the collisional merging formation process, two initial FRC-like plasmoids are accelerated toward each other by a magnetic pressure gradient.
October 2022 | T. Seki (Nihon) | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A visible light tomographic imaging system has been developed for the collisional merging experiment of FRCs on the FRC Amplification via Translation–Collisional Merging device at Nihon University
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