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.
August 2021 | M. Griswold | OS2021 | Presentation
Original array of diagnostics on C-2W’s divertor electrodes
demonstrated the functionality of C-2W’s expander divertors:
• Measured Ambipolar Potential of 4-5 Te
• Small Debye Sheath of ~1 Te
August 2021 | M. Kaur | OS2021 | Presentation
Negatively-applied biasing improves confinement by stabilizing global MHD modes
• Bias is most effective in narrow biasing configurations
• Comparison of three electrode configurations shown …
August 2021 | T. Roche | OS2021 | Presentation
TAE has developed the world’s premier FRC machine
• The C-2W Project has accomplished its goals:
• Steady state operation for > 30 ms
• Plasma parameter ramp up via NB heating and current drive …
August 2021 | S. Dettrick | OS2021 | Presentation
Equilibrium with large kinetic ion population
• Global Stability properties in presence of neutral beams
• Perpendicular Transport due to kinetic microturbulence
July 2021 | D.K. Gupta | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A main ion charge exchange recombination spectroscopy (mChERS) diagnostic has been developed to measure the velocity and temperature of the main deuterium ions in the C-2W FRC device
June 2021 | M. Dikovsky | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
We determined the time-dependent geometry, including high-frequency oscillations, of the plasma density in TAE’s C-2W experiment.
May 2021 | G. Player | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W, neutral beam injection creates a large fast ion population that sustains a fieldreversed configuration (FRC) plasma.
May 2021 | J. B. Titus | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
The C-2W experiment produces advanced beam-driven field FRC plasmas, which are sustained in steady state utilizing variable energy neutral beams, advanced divertors, end bias electrodes, and an active plasma
control system.
May 2021 | M. Nations | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
In TAE Technologies’ C-2W experiment, electrode biasing is utilized for boundary control of a field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma embedded in a magnetic mirror.
May 2021 | N. Bolte | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental fusion device, C-2W, record breaking, advanced beam-driven FRC plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state utilizing variable-energy neutral beams, expander divertors, end-bias electrodes, and an active plasma control system.
April 2021 | D. Sheftman | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
Edge control in the C-2W field-reversed configuration experiment is crucial for the stability and energy confinement of the core plasma.
April 2021 | E. M. Granstedt | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
The C-2W device (“Norman”) [Gota et al., Nucl. Fusion 59, 112009 (2019)] has produced and sustained beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas embedded in a magnetic mirror geometry using neutral beams and end-bias electrodes located in expander divertors.
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