Electrostatic and Other Fusion Concepts

A fusor is a device that uses an electric field to heat ions to a temperature at which they undergo nuclear fusion.

The polywell is a proposed design for a fusion reactor using an electric and magnetic field to heat ions to fusion conditions.

Migma, sometimes migmatron or migmacell, was a proposed colliding beam fusion reactor designed by Bogdan Maglich in 1969.

Muon-catalyzed fusion (abbreviated μCF or MCF) is a process that allows nuclear fusion to occur at temperatures significantly lower than those needed for thermonuclear fusion, even at room temperature or lower.

Pyroelectric fusion refers to the technique of using pyroelectric crystals to generate high strength electrostatic fields to accelerate deuterium ions (tritium might also be used someday) into a metal hydride target also containing deuterium (or tritium) with sufficient kinetic energy to cause these ions to undergo nuclear fusion.

A dense plasma focus (DPF) is a type of plasma generating system originally developed as a fusion power device, starting in the early 1960s.

Colliding beam fusion (CBF), or colliding beam fusion reactor (CBFR), is a class of fusion power concepts that are based on two or more intersecting beams of fusion fuel ions that are independently accelerated to fusion energies using a variety of particle accelerator designs or other means.

Bubble fusion is the non-technical name for a nuclear fusion reaction hypothesized to occur inside extraordinarily large collapsing gas bubbles created in a liquid during acoustic cavitation.