October 2019 | M. E. Griswold | APS-DPP | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called Norman), record breaking, advanced beam-driven field reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state
October 2018 | M. E. Griswold | APS-DPP | Poster
In an hypothetical isolated mirror (with no net current flow), an ambipolar electric potential modifies the loss cone so electrons are lost at the same rate as ions.
July 2018 | M. E. Griswold | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A suite of diagnostics was developed to measure particle and heat fluxes arriving at the divertor elec- trodes of the C-2W experiment at TAE Technologies.
October 2016 | M.E. Griswold | APS-DPP | Poster
An end loss analyzer system (ELA) was developed to study thermal transport on the open field lines that surround the advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) core of the C-2U experiment.
August 2016 | M. E. Griswold | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
An end loss analyzer system consisting of electrostatic, gridded retarding-potential analyzers and pyroelectric crystal bolometers was developed to characterize the plasma loss along open field lines to the divertors of C-2U. The system measures the current and energy distribution of escaping ions as well as the total power flux to enable calculation of the energy lost per escaping electron/ion pair.