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.
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.”
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.
June 2022 | V. Pilard | TOFE | Presentation
TAE at the forefront of AM applications for fusion devices. Still many challenges to tackle for neutronic fusion: activation, material degradation, codes & standards
June 2022 | T. Roche | TOFE | Presentation
C-2W’s diagnostic suite verifies our history making FRC Fusion Reactor progress. Key diagnostics has allow progress on answering key physics questions and enhancing understanding.
June 2022 | J. Romero | TOFE | Presentation
C-2W is the world’s first steady-state FRC with fusion relevant parameters, C-2W machine and diagnostics are upgraded often in response to the research needs.
November 2022 | A. Sabo | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Effects of finite ion temperature on the plasma flow in the converging–diverging magnetic field, the magnetic mirror, or equivalently,
magnetic nozzle configuration are studied using a quasineutral paraxial two-fluid MHD model with isothermal electrons and warm magnetized ions.
May 2022 | R. Marshall | HTPD | Poster
The prototype mCHERS diagnostic, reported at the previous HTPD, is providing measurements of the main-ion (hydrogen or deuterium) temperature and velocity
May 2022 | S. Kamio | HTPD | Poster
Understanding fast ion confinement and transport physics is very important for the beam-driven, FRC. In order to study fast ion physics in the C-2W device, neutral particle analyzers (NPAs) are used.
May 2022 | M. Tobin | HTPD | Poster
Among the several diagnostics installed to survey the plasmas created in the device is a system of bolometers comprising 300 photodiode channels that measure plasma emissivity along 180 lines…
May 2022 | D. Osin | HTPD | Poster
To facilitate the diagnostics of this fast ion-dominated FRC, a high-energy and high-current DNB injector was designed and built by the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
May 2022 | E. Granstedt | HTPD | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W, concentric annular electrodes located in divertors are used for electrostatic biasing of beam-driven FRC
May 2022 | E. Parke | HTPD | Poster
Line-integrated electron density measurements from the multi-chord FIR interferometer system provide critical information about plasma profiles and performance…
May 2022 | T. Matsumoto | HTPD | Poster
C-2W has several pyrobolometer systems to measure power from fast neutrals that are generated by charge-exchange losses from the fast ion population.
May 2022 | I. Allfrey | HTPD | Poster
To overcome this limitation a magnetized coaxial plasma gun (MCPG) has been developed which generates and accelerates a spheromak-like plasma to refuel the core
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