Besides a typical high‐density plasma source, electrical explosion of conductors is also
indispensable in switches, nanomaterial synthesis, shock‐wave sources, etc. In this paper …

The formation of strata during fast electrical explosions of aluminum wires at current
densities of (1–1.4)× 10 8 A/cm 2 has been studied experimentally. To observe the strata …

Results of experimental studies of the X-pinch since its invention and implementation in
1982 at the Lebedev Physical Institute are presented. The review consists of two parts. The …

The rebuilt COBRA pulsed-power generator, which has a variable current-pulse waveform
and amplitude (95-150-ns rise time and~ 1-MA peak current), has extended the range of the …

Two-and three-dimensional MHD simulations are used to provide a theoretical description of
2 wire molybdenum X-pinch experiments. The initial evolution from solid wires to the …

Wire X-pinches (WXPs) have been studied comprehensively as fast (⁠∼ 1 ns pulse width),
small (⁠∼ 1 μ m) x-ray sources, created by twisting two or more fine wires into an “X” to …

We estimate the parameters of a Cu plasma generated by an X-pinch by comparing
experimentally measured x-rays with synthetic data. A filtered absolute extreme ultraviolet …

X pinches are well known to produce very small, dense plasma pinches (“micropinches”)
that emit short bursts of 1.5–8 keV radiation [Shelkovenko et al, Phys. Plasmas 9, 2165 …

A review of X-pinches of various configurations and of different materials as an X-ray source
for various applications is presented. The advantages and disadvantages of different …

For the first time, the regime of a micrometer-size hot spot formation is impemented for an X-
pinch in a plasma, which is fed from a current generator based on low-inductance capacitors …