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 2023 | O. Chapurin | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Magnetic mirror configurations are observed in natural settings and have various applications in laboratory plasmas, such as a magnetic expander of the open mirror fusion devices.
December 2023 | R. Groenewald | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
The FRC, such as studied in the C-2W experiment at TAE Technologies, is an attractive candidate for realizing a nuclear fusion reactor.
November 2023 | Y. Musthafa | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
C-2W’s ensemble of neutral
beams includes four static energy 15 keV H/D beams, four tunable energy 15-40 keV H/D beams, and one 40 keV diagnostic beam.
November 2023 | Y. Fujiwara | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
The FIDA spectrum was extracted from active measurements using a midplane array of sightlines passing through a diagnostic neutral beam.
November 2023 | T. Matsumoto | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
As an alternative particle fueling mechanism, the Compact Toroid Injector (CTI) system has been in development since the C-2 device.
November 2023 | S. Nicks | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Fluid-derived critical lengths2 show qualitative agreement with kinetic AIC stabilization threshold.
November 2023 | T. DeHaas | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
The current experimental device, C-2W (Norman), has demonstrated significant progress in FRC performance, reliability, repeatability, and control.
November 2023 | S. Karbashewski | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
A workhorse diagnostic for investigating magnetic fluctuations in C-2W is a
Mirnov probe array comprising 3-axis magnetic probes for sensing “B-dot”
fluctuations at the CV wall arranged in evenly spaced rings.
November 2023 | R. Smith | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Pulsed polarimetry is a LIDAR technique which uses the intensity and state of polarization of the emission to yield local measurements of density
November 2023 | M. Litton | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
By adjusting gas settings in each NB, this neutral flux was minimized. Localized wall heating was reduced and fast ion confinement times in the FRC plasma were improved by 25%.
November 2023 | M. Nations | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
DNB enables local main-ion measurements with improved spatial resolution defined by the intersection volume between the diagnostic neutral beam and optical sightlines
November 2023 | L. Tang | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
High speed IR thermography can measure heat deposition on plasma-facing components, for machine monitoring and insight into plasma power losses.
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