January 2019 | R. M. Magee | Nature Physics | Paper
30 ms steady state C-2W plasma sustainment has been achieved. 400 eV record electron temperature has been demonstrated.
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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.
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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.
Field Reversed Configuration Confinement Enhancement through Edge Biasing and Neutral Beam Injection
June 2012 | M. Tuszewski | Physical Review Letters | Paper
Field reversed configurations (FRCs) with high confinement are obtained in the C-2 device by combining plasma gun edge biasing and neutral beam injection.
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October 2019 | Richard Ignace | APS-DPP | Poster
Direct and local measurements of internal magnetic field are highly desirable in TAE’s fusion plasma experiments to characterize the magnetic field profile
October 2019 | B. S. Nicks | APS-DPP | Poster
C-2U experiment: beam-driven FRC. Proton beams injected into deuterium plasma. Fast proton injection greatly enhanced DD fusion rate
October 2019 | D. Kobayashi | APS-DPP | Poster
The technique for injection an impurity ion-doped CT has been proposed. The TCCT is produced and accelerated by an MCPG with a tracer source injector.
October 2019 | J.B. Titus | 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 | Sangeeta Gupta | APS-DPP | Poster
1-Dimension equilibrium is reconstructed using experimental plasma profiles, 1-D Ampere’s law, and Kinetic Monte Carlo fast ions.
October 2019 | Marcel Nations | APS-DPP | Poster
The diagnostic provides spatially- and temporally- resolved measurements of key impurity ion parameters. Impurity ion velocity (Doppler shift).
October 2019 | Marco Onofri | 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 | E.M. Granstedt | APS-DPP | Poster
NB model accounts for grid size, divergence, duct loss Primary edge neutral source: plasma and neutral wall recycling. Bump in neutral density at 0.2 m
October 2019 | Timothy DeHaas | APS-DPP | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C2W (also called “Norman”) [1], record breaking, advanced beam-driven field reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state utilizing variable energy neutral beams,
October 2019 | Roger J Smith | 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 | V. Sokolov | APS-DPP | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called “Norman”) [1], record breaking, advanced beam-driven field reversed configuration plasmas
October 2019 | D. Sheftman | APS-DPP | Poster
Reduction of impurity influx from material surfaces is essential to achieve high temperatures in fusion experiments. In the beam driven field reversed configuration C-2W device…
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