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.
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.”
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.
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
October 2022 | A. Bondarenko | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
The C-2W experimental device at TAE Technologies utilizes neutral beam injection and edge biasing to sustain long-lived, stable FRC plasma.
October 2022 | S. Kamio | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
In order to measure the fast ion using NPAs in the low neutral density core region of a magnetic confinement fusion device, active change exchange measurements are often performed using a NB as a CX target
October 2022 | G. Player | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
The electron temperature is a vital parameter in understanding the dynamics of fusion
plasmas, helping to determine basic properties of the system, stability, and fast ion lifetime.
October 2022 | J. Ogasawara (Nihon) | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
To directly detect the spatial distribution of a plasma current during the collisional merging of two FRCs in the FAT-CM device, an internal current probe using Rogowski coils has been developed.
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