The approach is known as inertial electrostatic confinement.

He referred to this as inertial electrostatic confinement, a term that continues to be used to this day.

Another type of innovative neutron generator is the inertial electrostatic confinement fusion device.

Inertial electrostatic confinement (in fusion energy)

With the demise of the original project, Bussard moved on to new inertial electrostatic confinement fusion designs with extremely high claimed performance.

In his article Neutron activation analysis using an inertial electrostatic confinement fusion device he indicated that his apparatus did not produce surplus energy.

Polywell fusion, uses inertial electrostatic confinement to attract and confine ions so densely that they fuse.

Migma was a proposed inertial electrostatic confinement fusion reactor designed by Bogdan Maglich in the early 1970s.

Inertial electrostatic confinement (often abbreviated as IEC) is a concept for retaining a plasma using an electrostatic field.

In later life, Farnsworth invented a small nuclear fusion device, the Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor, or simply "fusor", employing inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC).

Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of the first all-electronic television system in 1927, patented his first Fusor design in 1968, a device that uses inertial electrostatic confinement.

Most fusion scientists doubt Dr. Bussard's assertion that he has solved all the underlying physics issues with inertial electrostatic confinement and knows how to build a working fusion power generator.

Another popular confinement concept for fusion rockets is inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC), such as in the Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor or the Polywell variation being researched by the Energy-Matter Conversion Corporation.

Among various schemes, inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IECF) is an extremely compact, low cost and simple device that can produce neutron yield typically in the order of 108 DD n/s in steady state operation and 1011 n/s in pulsed mode of operation.

On March 29, 2006, Bussard claimed on the fusor.net internet forum that EMC2 had developed an inertial electrostatic confinement fusion process that was 100,000 times more efficient than previous designs, but that the US Navy budget line item that supported the work was zero-funded in FY2006.