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 2013 | B. Deng | APS-DPP | Poster
Ideal FRC configuration has zero toroidal field.
November 2013 | F. Cecherini | APS-DPP | Poster
The generation and propagation of an ion cyclotron resonant wave is studied in a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasma which includes at least two different ion species.
November 2013 | S. Aefsky | APS-DPP | Poster
The electron temperature of the plasma inside the C-2 Experiment is measured using a Thomson Scattering (TS) diagnostic.
November 2013 | R. Magee | APS-DPP | Poster
The C-2 field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas are created via the dynamic merging of two compact toroids and partially sustained through the injection of high power neutral beams.
November 2013 | K. Zhai | APS-DPP | Poster
C2 Thomson scattering system is upgraded with capability of electron density profile measurement.
November 2013 | H. Guo | APS-DPP | Poster
C-2 achieved new High Confinement FRC regime with dramatically improved stability & confinement.
November 2013 | E. Trask | APS-DPP | Poster
Ray propagation in the electron cyclotron range of frequencies (ECRF) has been studied for simulated two dimensional equilibria on the C-2 device.
November 2013 | 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.
November 2013 | T. Roche | APS-DPP | Poster
The divertor magnetic field configuration is varied to investigate its influence on the C-2 FRC and its jet.
November 2013 | N. Rath | APS-DPP | Poster
FRC Equilibria are calculated with the LR_eq Grad-Shafranov solver.
September 2013 | H. Gota | US-Japan CT Workshop | Presentation
Demonstration of a High Performance FRC (HPF) regime by combining effects of edge-biasing from end-on plasma guns and of neutral-beam injection.
September 2013 | M. Tuszewski | US-Japan CT Workshop | Presentation
Ideal FRC pressure balance.
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