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.
April 2025 | T. Roche | Nature Communications | Paper
We report evidence of successful generation of field-reversed configuration plasmas by neutral beam injection. This is achieved by trapping the steady state beams in an initial seed plasma, hence providing a direct source of toroidally directed energetic ion current and increase plasma …
October 2024 | H. Gota | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
TAE Technologies’ fifth-generation fusion device, C-2W (also called ‘Norman’), is the world’s largest compact-toroid device and has made significant progress in field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma performance.
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.”
November 2025 | H. Gota | CWFEST 2025 | Presentation
TAE’s goal: p-11B aneutronic fusion Reactivity of p-11B has been reassessed
– Cross section larger than previously believed.
– Kinetic effects can further increase reactivity
– Net effect leads to ~30% increase of the fusion yield for the same…
November 2025 | T. Matsumoto | 2025 US-Japan FRC Workshop | Presentation
– Two-CT injection was successfully demonstrated
– No disruption due to the injection was observed
– Plasma performance during FRC ramp-up was improved
– Diamagnetism was observed with only CTs and NBIs
November 2025 | J. Wood | 2025 US-Japan FRC Workshop | Presentation
Characterizing neutral particles is essential for understanding fueling, confinement, and fast-ion behavior in C-2W’s magnetically confined FRCs.
A dedicated Lyman-⍺ diagnostic has been installed on C-2W
November 2025 | J. Barrett | 2025 US-Japan FRC Workshop | Presentation
With the genesis of Norm, a new fueling paradigm is born:
– Fueling Location Matters:
Open field lines are necessary for efficient FRC fueling.
November 2025 | S. Kamio | 2025 US-Japan FRC Workshop | Presentation
ICRF heating in LHD clearly accelerates fast ions and enhances p-¹¹B fusion yield. In the FRC device C-2W, fast-ion acceleration is also observed together with beam-driven modes. The n = 2 mode can accelerate NB-injected ions to nearly twice their initial energy…
November 2025 | S. Dettrick | 2025 US-Japan FRC Workshop | Presentation
Non-inductive start-up, ramp-up, and sustainment of FRC using neutral beams. Experimental validation of Improved Tilt Stability with Neutral Beams. Neutral
Beams can drive Energetic Particle Modes in Steady State FRC. Electrode biasing improves MHD…
November 2025 | Y. Zhou | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
Fast ions confined by the FRC likely cause electrons in the FR to heat up and emit X-rays. We plan to identify the exact location of electron heating by improving the spatial resolution of the X-ray diagnostic. The X-ray diagnostic will also be used to study electron heating induced by an Electron Cyclotron Resonance…
November 2025 | W. Harris | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
The bias system in C-2W has a voltage limitation that is in-part due to arcing between electrodes. The Bias Test Stand (BTS) is a testbed built by TAE to study different electrode configurations and design features to reduce arcing.
November 2025 | S. Kamio | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
In C-2U experiments, thermal ion acceleration by a beam-driven wave was observed [R. M. Magee et al. Nat. Phys. 15, 281–286 (2019)]. This thermal ion acceleration is pointed out to dramatically enhance the fusion rate because the beam energy is transferred to thermal ions, bypassing the electron channel…
November 2025 | C. Lau | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
CLAUS is a new non-variational eigenvalue solver, which is a modern implementation of the dispersion functional approach based on the Vlasov-Maxwell model and developed specifically for high-𝛽 plasmas with analytically intractable particle orbits.
November 2025 | A. Bondarenko | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
TAE Technologies’ fifth-generation fusion research device C-2W1 utilizes neutral beam injection and edge biasing to sustain long-lived, stable field reversed configuration (FRC)2 plasma embedded within a magnetic mirror.
November 2025 | Y. Fujiwara | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
TAE Technologies is conducting research and development aimed at realizing fusion power generation based on the proton–boron (p–11B) fusion reaction on two parallel track.
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