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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July 2014 | T. Roche | Plasma Sources Science and Technology | Paper
Diffusion of test-ions in a flux-coil generated, collisional, field-reversed configuration is measured via time-resolved tomographic reconstruction of Ar+ optical emission in the predominantly nitrogen plasma.
June 2014 | B. Deng | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A two-chord far infrared (FIR) laser polarimeter for high speed sub-degree Faraday rotation measurements in the C-2 field reversed configuration experiment is described.
June 2014 | H. Gota | HTPD | Poster
FRC plasmas are well diagnosed in the C-2 device; > 50 diagnostic systems. C-2 extensive diag suite provides understanding of basic physics of FRC plasmas.
June 2014 | L. Schmitz | HTPD | Poster
At higher toroidal wave number, the density level fluctuation decreases exponentially. Fluctuation levels are very low in FRC core.
June 2014 | R. Clary | HTPD | Poster
The C-2 field-reversed configuration (FRC) experiment has achieved operating regime exceeding empirical scaling laws.
June 2014 | R. Magee | HTPD | Poster
Measurements of the flux of fusion products from high temperature plasmas provide valuable insights into the ion energy distribution, as the fusion reaction rate is a very sensitive function of ion energy.
June 2014 | T. Roche | HTPD | Poster
Langmuir probes have the seductive quality of promising quick and easy direct measurements of plasma parameters.
June 2014 | B. Deng | HTPD | Poster
Real time resolved high speed, sub-degree Faraday rotation measurements.
June 2014 | D. Gupta | HTPD | Poster
In a FRC, ion temperature profiles dynamics is crucial to understand the FRC confinement.
May 2014 | D. Osin | 2014 ICOPS | Presentation
Mechanisms of Ion Rotation require further investigation. Fast Ions and Field Curvature contribute significantly to the pressure balance.
March 2014 | D. Barnes | 2014 Sherwood | Presentation
June 2014 | H.U. Rahman | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
We simulate a field-reversed configuration (FRC), produced by an “inductively driven” FRC experiment; comprised of a central-flux coil and exterior-limiter coil. To account for the plasma kinetic behavior, a standard 2-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic code is modified to preserve the azimuthal, two-fluid behavior.
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