August 2026 | R.E. Groenewald | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
TAE Technologies, Inc. has successfully demonstrated maintenance of a stable field-reversed configuration plasmas through the use of external actuators, which include neutral beam injection, core fueling, and electrode biasing.
October 2024 | B. Sporer | APS DPP 2024 | Poster
In TAE’s C-2W machine*, a high-beta field-reversed configuration (FRC) is sustained within a magnetic mirror. Various mechanisms can cause rapid (<1 ms) collapse of the high-beta FRC state into a lower-beta mirror state, herein referred to as a plasma disruption.
November 2023 | O. Chapurin | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Magnetic mirror configurations are observed in natural settings and have various applications in laboratory plasmas, such as a magnetic expander of the open mirror fusion devices.
November 2023 | S. Nicks | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Fluid-derived critical lengths2 show qualitative agreement with kinetic AIC stabilization threshold.
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