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.
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.”
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.
August 2016 | T. Roche | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
External flux conserving coils were installed onto the exterior of the C-2U confinement vessel to increase the flux confinement time of the system. The 0.5 in. stainless steel vessel wall has a skin time of ⇠5 ms. The addition of the external copper coils e↵ectively increases this time to ⇠7 ms.
July 2016 | T. Matsumoto | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
We have developed a compact toroid (CT) injector system for particle refueling of the advanced beam- driven C-2U field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma. The CT injector is a magnetized coaxial plasma gun (MCPG), and the produced CT must cross the perpendicular magnetic field surrounding the FRC for the refueling of C-2U.
July 2016 | Ryan Clary | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
C-2U is a high-confinement, advanced beam driven field-reversed configuration plasma experiment which sustains the configuration for >5 ms, in excess of typical MHD and fast particle instability times, as well as fast particle slowing down times.
July 2016 | B. Deng | Applied Optics | Paper
A new optically pumped far-infrared (FIR) laser with separate pump beam reflector and FIR output coupler has been developed. The new design greatly simplifies the tuning of the laser and enables the optimization of the pump beam absorption without affecting the laser alignment.
June 2016 | Niko Rath | AIP Publishing | Paper
We show that in a field-reversed-configuration, the plasma is unstable to either transverse or axial rigid displacement, but never to both.
June 2016 | Dima Osin | ICOPS | Poster
Upgraded interferometer/polarimeter on center plane of machine to provide high resolution density and magnetic field information.
June 2016 | Matt Thompson | HTPD | Poster
The C-2U experiment at TAE Technologies studies the evolution of field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas sustained by neutral beam injection (NBI).
June 2016 | Kan Zhai | HTPD | Poster
Comparison of electron density profile measure from TS and CO2 interferometer. C-2U achieved FRC plasma sustainment of 5+ms.
June 2016 | Matsumoto, T. | HTPD | Poster
We have developed a compact toroid (CT) injector system for particle refueling of the advanced beam-driven C-2U field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma.
June 2016 | Michael Beall | HTPD | Poster
In the prior C-2 experiment, electron density was measured using a two-color 6-Chord CO2/HeNe interferometer.
June 2016 | Nathan Bolte | HTPD | Poster
The first measurements of fast-ion D-alpha (FIDA) radiation have been acquired on C-2U, the TAE Technologies advanced, beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC).
June 2016 | R. Clary | HTPD | Poster
C-2U is a high-confinement, advanced beam driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma which sustains the configuration for > 5 ms, in excess of typical MHD and fast particle instability times, as well as fast particle slowing down times.
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