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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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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November 2011 | M. Tuszewski | APS-DPP | Presentation
November 2011 | R. Clary | APS-DPP | Poster
The TAE Technologies C-2 device [1,2] aims to explore confinement properties of colliding Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasmas, augmented with neutral beam injection.
November 2011 | B. Deng | APS-DPP | Poster
Plasma equilibrium profiles and fluctuations in the C-2 field reversed configuration (FRC) experiment [M. W. Binderbauer et al, Phys.Rev.Lett. 105, 045003 (2010)] are measured under various operation conditions.
November 2011 | L. Galeotti | APS-DPP | Poster
We present an analytical derivation in cylindrical geometry of the Finite Larmor Radius approximation for the wave equations in the cyclotron frequency range.
November 2011 | D. Gupta | APS-DPP | Poster
Although high rotation velocity in a FRC may lead to rotational instabilities, it is also believed that shear flow helps in improving FRC stability and transport.
November 2011 | S. Gupta | APS-DPP | Poster
A Quasi-1D (Q1D) transport code is developed at Tri Alpha for predicting and interpreting the macroscopic time evolution of FRC plasmas.
November 2011 | S. Korepanov | APS-DPP | Poster
One of the goals of the C-2 experiment [1,2] is to explore FRC sustainment and current drive from neutral beam injection. Studies of the relaxation and confinement of hot anisotropic ions created by the neutral beams are considered to be key elements of the experimental research program.
November 2011 | A. Necas | APS-DPP | Poster
We report on progress made in using the NIMROD [2] code to simulate formation, translation and merging of FRCs in the C-2 experiment [1]. This sequence is simulated in 2D and 3D, with and without inclusion of the Hall term.
November 2011 | T. Roche | APS-DPP | Poster
An optical tomography system has been developed and implemented in the Flux Coil Generated Field Reversed Configuration (FCG-FRC) at TAE Technologies.
November 2011 | E. Ruskov | APS-DPP | Poster
High required time resolution resolves in high required modulation frequency and high IF: need very fast data acquisition.
November 2011 | X. Sun | APS-DPP | Poster
Edge biasing has long been used in various fusion devices to actively control the plasma potential profile in order to suppress radial transport by decorrelating density and potential fluctuations through flow shear.
November 2011 | M. Thompson | APS-DPP | Poster
In any magnetic plasma confinement device, it is advantageous to limit hot-ion loss through charge-exchange with cold neutral gas by minimizing the gas density near the plasma.
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