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.
November 2023 | J. Drobny | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Attractive-repulsive potentials reproduce low energy reflection coefficients better than screened Coulomb potentials
November 2023 | J. Barrett | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Restoring wall conditions in C-2W (Norman)—TAE Technologies’ present fusion device—after a vent is critical to
produce high quality field-reverse configuration (FRC) plasmas
November 2023 | J. MacFarlane | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Polychromator system used to filter a single observed line of sight into the three wavelengths of interest
November 2023 | I. Sato | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Experimentally verify that there is a change in plasma behavior at the limiter flux line in a high – plasma scenario
November 2023 | I. Allfrey | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Newly developed magnetized coaxial plasma guns (MCPG) where counter-helicity spheromak merging
generates a high-flux FRC have been investigated for use in FRC fueling and re-fluxing
November 2023 | G. Player | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
The C-2W advanced beam-driven FRC device utilizes 15-40 keV neutral beams to create a large population of fast ions, which are critically important for FRC heating, current drive, and stabilization.
November 2023 | E. Granstedt | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Gauge response model free parameters: wall pumping rate, gauge delay time, gauge smoothing time
November 2023 | A. Veksler | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Employ a Hybrid-PIC algorithm with kinetic ions and fluid-like electrons
November 2023 | E. Parke | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
On C-2W (also called “Norman”) record-breaking, advanced beam-driven field reversed-configuration (FRC) plasmas are produced and sustained in steady stat
November 2023 | A. Bondarenko | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called “Norman”),1 record breaking, advanced beam-driven FRC plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state …
October 2023 | B. Nicks | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
The Alfven-ion cyclotron (AIC) mode is an instability that can be driven in magnetized plasmas with anisotropic pressure. Its chief deleterious effect is the driving of enhanced pitch-angle scattering of ions
October 2023 | H. Gota | CWFEST 2023 | Presentation
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