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…
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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.
April 2015 | H. Guo | Nature Communications | Paper
Developing a stable plasma state with high-beta (ratio of plasma to magnetic pressures) is of critical importance for an economic magnetic fusion reactor.
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October 2022 | F. Ceccherini | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
The full-wave code RF_Pisa has been extended to model the so-called Helicon regime. These waves are whistler-type waves with a two-branch dispersion relation.
October 2022 | M. Griswold | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W, the FRC core plasma is surrounded by a mirror-confined scrape-off layer on open field lines
October 2022 | J. Titus | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
There are eight heating neutral beam injectors and one diagnostics neutral beam injector on the C-2W experiment
October 2022 | G. Player | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
The suite of fast ion diagnostics on the C-2W device include neutral particle analyzers (NPAs), scintillating neutron detectors, silicon proton detectors, and particle bolometers
October 2022 | Y. Musthafa | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
An extensive suite of survey spectrometers has been deployed on C-2W in order to understand the spatial profile and time evolution of the plasma composition
October 2022 | J. Sweeney | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
Z-effective increase after injection was followed by a delayed rise in electron density. For Argon injection, this included a significant drop in electron temperature.
October 2022 | M. Kaur | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
NB-driven FRC plasmas stay in a steady-state for long time and allow a thorough study of electron heating mechanisms. Core plasma 𝑇𝑒
shows a strong correlation with 𝑃𝐵𝑖𝑎𝑠.
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.
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