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.
October 30, 2014 | T. Matsumoto | APS-DPP | Poster
A collaborative research project with TAE Technologies has been started and we have developed a new compact toroid (CT) injector for the C-2 device, mainly for fueling field-reversed configurations (FRCs).
October 2014 | M. Binderbauer | APS-DPP | Presentation
The long-range mission is to develop compact reactor without toroidal field coils or a central solenoid.
October 2014 | D. Gupta | APS-DPP | Poster
Measurements of ion temperature profile and its time evolution is important for the understanding of FRC confinement and transport properties.
October 2014 | E. Belova | APS-DPP | Presentation
Numerical study of FRC spin-up and the effects of end-biasing on FRC stability has been performed using a 3D nonlinear hybrid version of the HYM code for TAE FRC experimental parameters.
October 2014 | F. Ceccherini | APS-DPP | Poster
A previously developed Finite Larmor Radius (FLR) code for ICRH studies in cylindrical geometry has been recently extended to include the frequency range of interest for ECRH applications.
October 2014 | E. Garate | APS-DPP | Poster
An absolutely-calibrated 12-chord Bremsstrahlung array has been implemented on C-2 and is being used to infer Z-effective profiles and line-averaged values.
October 2014 | D. Fulton | APS-DPP | Presentation
Core turbulence in a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) is studied using the Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code with modified equilibrium geometry.
October 2014 | M. Onofri | APS-DPP | Poster
The 2D transport code Q2D is used to study transport in the C-2 Field Reversed Configuration with neutral beam injection.
October 2014 | L. Schmitz | APS-DPP | Poster
Electron-scale turbulence has been observed in the C-2 FRC multi-channel Doppler Backscattering.
October 2014 | E. Trask | APS-DPP | Poster
Several key changes have led to record performance of the TAE Technologies C-2 Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) device.
October 2014 | M. Thompson | APS-DPP | Poster
The C-2 experiment seeks to study the evolution, heating and sustainment effects of neutral beam injection on field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas.
October 2014 | K. Zhai | APS-DPP | Poster
A new high performance regime of C-2 FRC Plasma was found and experimentally investigated during our latest campaigns.
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