Disclose is a machine including: an inner stator having a plurality of radially outwardly extending teeth; an outer stator having a plurality of radially inwardly extending teeth that are offset from the radially outwardly extending teeth; a rotor including an extension between the plurality of stators, the extension including a plurality of rotor magnet slots and a plurality of flux barrier slots; the plurality of rotor magnet slots and the plurality of flux barrier slots contact one another and are arranged in a circumferentially alternating sequence, one after another, such that each of the rotor magnet slots is circumferentially bounded by a pair of the flux barrier slots; and a portion of each of the plurality of rotor magnet slots is disposed along a machine radial axis and/or a portion of each of the plurality of flux barrier slots is disposed at an angle to the machine radial axis.