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Apparatus for magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma

  • US 9,672,943 B2
  • Filed: 06/02/2016
  • Issued: 06/06/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for containing plasma comprisinga generally cylindrical chamber having a longitudinal axis,a first means for creating a magnetic field within the chamber having a field lines axially parallel to the longitudinal axis,a second means for injecting plasma into the chamber,a third means for creating an azimuthal electric field within the chamber that couples to charged particles within the plasma causing the plasma to rotate and accelerating the rotating plasma to form a magnetic field and a corresponding electrostatic field, the magnetic field having a reversed topology and being formed around the rotating plasma, anda fourth means for tuning the electrostatic field.

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