Review of effects of dielectric coatings on electrical exploding wires and Z pinches

J Wu, X Li, M Li, Y Li, A Qiu - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
As the most powerful x-ray source in the laboratories, the wire array Z pinches have been of
great relevance to inertial confinement fusions, laboratory astrophysics, and other high …

[HTML][HTML] X-ray radiography of the overheating instability in underwater electrical explosions of wires

D Yanuka, A Rososhek, S Theocharous, SN Bland… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We present the measurements of the development of striation like instabilities during the
electrical driven explosions of wires in a water bath. In vacuum based wire explosion …

Spatial–temporal evolution of plasma radiation in electrical wire explosion: A morphological observation

R Han, W Zhu, J Wu, C Li, C Zhang, R Cui… - Journal of Physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper deals with an experimental study regarding the spatial–temporal evolution of
single wire explosions in air and water at atmospheric pressure. Experiments were carried …

Experimental observation of the stratified electrothermal instability on aluminum with thickness greater than a skin depth

TM Hutchinson, TJ Awe, BS Bauer, KC Yates, EP Yu… - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
A direct observation of the stratified electrothermal instability on the surface of thick metal is
reported. Aluminum rods coated with 70 μ m Parylene-N were driven to 1 MA in 100 ns, with …

Semiempirical wide-range conductivity model with exploding wire verification

J Stephens, J Dickens, A Neuber - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
Based on well-established physical relationships, a semiempirical set of equations dictating
the electrical conductivity of dense, strongly coupled, partially ionized copper is presented …

Transforming dielectric coated tungsten and platinum wires to gaseous state using negative nanosecond-pulsed-current in vacuum

J Wu, X Li, K Wang, Z Li, Z Yang, Z Shi, S Jia… - Physics of Plasmas, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
With the help of thin dielectric coatings, corona free explosions were achieved in the region
of about half a wire length (2 cm) for tungsten wires and nearly the whole wire length for …

Exploding-wire experiments and theory for metal conductivity evaluation in the sub-eV regime

J Stephens, A Neuber - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2012 - APS
Copper and silver wires are subjected to pulsed high current densities producing high
density metal plasma in the sub-eV regime with atmospheric air as a background gas …

[HTML][HTML] Electrical properties of different materials studied by sub-microsecond underwater electrical explosions of single wires

R Grikshtas, N Asmedianov, D Maler, S Efimov… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Results of an experimental research and one-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of
critically damped sub-microsecond timescale underwater electrical explosions of wires …

[PDF][PDF] 表面绝缘铝平面丝阵Z 箍缩实验研究

盛亮, 李阳, 袁媛, 彭博栋, 李沫, 张美, 赵吉祯… - 物理学报, 2014 - researchgate.net
在“强光一号” 装置(1.3 MA, 100 ns) 上进行了镀2 µm 聚酰亚胺绝缘膜平面铝丝阵与普通铝丝阵Z
箍缩对比实验研究. 实验结果表明, 表面绝缘能够影响Z 箍缩内爆动力学和辐射特性 …

Factors affecting the exploding characteristics of tungsten wires with negative-polarity current

Y Shi, Z Shi, K Wang, Z Wu, S Jia - Physics of Plasmas, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents the experimental results of electrical explosion of tungsten (W) wires in
a vacuum using a negative-polarity current pulse with a magnitude of 1–2 kA. Uniform wire …