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.
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.
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.
November 2020 | B. Nicks | APS-DPP | Poster
Can FRCs (field-reversed configurations) be shown to be a preferred state of plasma under certain conditions?
November 2020 | R. Smith | APS-DPP | Poster
The mid-plane multi-chord FIR interferometer system on the Norman device is used in conjunction with the equilibrium (EQ) field coils and trim coil set to move the plasma axially
November 2020 | T. DeHaas | APS-DPP | Poster
TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W, is an advanced, beam-driven, FRC with advanced divertors, end bias electrodes, and …
November 2020 | J. Sweeney | APS-DPP | Poster
The TAE Technologies C-2W experimental device (also called “Norman”)1 produces advanced beam-driven field reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas.
November 2020 | A. Tkachev | APS-DPP | Poster
A high power electron beam for plasma heating has been developed at TAE Technologies. The electron beam is designed to provide up to 200 A
November 2020 | T. Matsumoto | APS-DPP | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W(also called“Norman”), record-breaking, advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration
November 2020 | L. Galeotti | APS-DPP | Poster
Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) plays a critical role in TAE’s C-2W FRC device providing plasma stability, heating and current drive. C-2W produces steady-state FRCs that are stable and contain significant current and pressure from fast ions.
November 2020 | L. Morton | APS-DPP | Poster
Fast ions diagnostics are important for C-2W. Data from mCHERS demonstrates feasibility of FIDA measurement…
November 2020 | B. Deng | APS-DPP | Poster
In the TAE Technologies current experimental device, C-2W, record breaking, advanced beam-driven FRC plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state utilizing variable energy neutral beams
November 2020 | F. Ceccherini | APS-DPP | Poster
TAE Technologies RF code, RF-Pisa, has been upgraded to study the transfer of momentum and angular momentum from RF waves to plasma species in an FRC configuration.
November 2020 | M. Tobin | APS-DPP | Poster
The C-2W device (also known as ‘Norman’) at TAE Technologies has proven successful at generating stable, long-lived FRC plasmas with record temperatures.
November 2020 | H.Gota | APS-DPP | Poster
TAE Technologies, Inc. (TAE) is a privately-funded company pursuing an alternative approach to magnetic confinement fusion, which relies on field-reversed configuration…
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