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.
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.
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.”
November 2020 | S. Dettrick | APS-DPP | Poster
Analysis – interpretive modeling of C-2W experiment. Simulation – predictive modeling of experiment.
November 2020 | M. Nations | APS-DPP | 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.
November 2020 | B.S. Nicks | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
In the scrape-off-layer (SOL) of a field-reversed configuration, neutral beam injection can drive
modes in the vicinity of the ion-cyclotron frequency
November 2020 | L. Steinhauer | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
A reconstructor tool is developed for fast computation of fully two-dimensional equilibria of FRCs that are consistent with routine magnetic data from experiments.
October 2020 | C. Scott | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
Energetic beams excite semi-repetitive modes (‘staircase mode’) in the field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma.
September 2020 | X. Yang | AIP Conference Proceedings | Paper
Simulation survey performed at TAE Technologies, has demonstrated that HHFW heating is a promising scenario to heat core electrons of FRC plasma.
August 2020 | C. Lau | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
A quasi-neutral blended drift-Lorentz particle model of the field-reversed configuration (FRC) has been developed and implemented in the particle-in-cell code named ANC.
October 2019 | K. Zhai | APS-DPP | Poster
30 ms steady state C-2W plasma sustainment has been achieved. 400 eV record electron temperature has been demonstrated.
October 2019 | Erik Trask | APS-DPP | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called “Norman”)[1], record breaking, advanced beam-driven field reversed configuration (FRC)
October 2019 | L. Steinhauer | APS-DPP | Poster
Tangibles” = inputs to Grushenka: what can be measured. Intangibles” = outputs from Grushenka: what can’t be directlymeasured
October 2019 | T. Roche | APS-DPP | Poster
In TAE Technologies current experimental device, C-2W (also called Norman),1 record breaking, advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas are produced and sustained
October 2019 | G. Player | APS-DPP | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called “Norman”) [1], record breaking, advanced beam-driven field reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state
Certain copyright rights accompany the materials herein. Modification, reproduction, distribution, or duplication for any commercial purpose is strictly prohibited.