In fact, while traditional magnet-design programs can evaluate magnet shapes in 20 minutes to several hours, QUADCOIL can complete the task in 10 seconds. An innovative technique ...

First conceptualized over 70 years ago by PPPL’s founder, Lyman Spitzer, a traditional stellarator works by employing electromagnets precisely arranged in complex shapes to generate magnetic ...

Physicists have created a new computer code that could speed up the design of the complicated magnets that shape the plasma in stellarators, making the systems simpler and more affordable to build.