A Review of the Gas-Puff -Pinch as an X-Ray and Neutron Source

JL Giuliani, RJ Commisso - IEEE Transactions on Plasma …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fisher and collaborators at the University of California, Irvine, invented the gas puff Z-pinch
in the late 1970s using a 200-kA generator. The implementation of gas puffs as a copious …

High rep rate high performance plasma focus as a powerful radiation source

S Lee, P Lee, G Zhang, X Feng… - … on Plasma Science, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Basic operational characteristics of the plasma focus are considered from design
perspectives to develop powerful radiation sources. Using these ideas we have developed …

Long time implosion experiments with double gas puffs

AV Shishlov, RB Baksht, AV Fedunin, FI Fursov… - Physics of …, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
Long time implosion experiments with argon double gas puffs have been conducted on the
GIT-12 SP Bugaev et al., Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved., Fiz. 40, 38 1997 generator at the …

Efficient argon K-shell radiation from a Z pinch at currents >15 MA

H Sze, PL Coleman, J Banister, BH Failor, A Fisher… - Physics of …, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
The first observations of gaseous load implosions with over 15 MA in> 110 ns on the Z
generator [RB Spielman et al., Phys. Plasmas 5, 2105 (1998)] are reported. Starting from a …

Use of vacuum arc plasma guns for a metal puff Z-pinch system

AG Rousskikh, AS Zhigalin, VI Oreshkin… - Physics of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
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The K-shell radiation of a double gas puff z-pinch with an axial magnetic field

SA Chaikovsky, AY Labetsky, VI Oreshkin… - Laser and particle …, 2003 - cambridge.org
A double shell z-pinch with an axial magnetic field is considered as a K-shell plasma
radiation source. One-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamics calculations performed suggest …

High energy photon radiation from a Z-pinch plasma

AL Velikovich, J Davis, VI Oreshkin, JP Apruzese… - Physics of …, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
A new approach to the generation of kilovolt x ray radiation in Z-pinch plasma radiation
sources is proposed. In cases where the pulse power machine has insufficient energy to …

Increased x-ray power generated from low-mass large-number aluminum-wire-array Z-pinch implosions

TWL Sanford, RC Mock, RB Spielman… - Physics of …, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
A Saturn accelerator study of annular, aluminum-wire-array, Z-pinch implosions in the
calculated high-wire-number plasma-shell regime [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 5063 (1996)] shows …

Estimation of optimum density and temperature for maximum efficiency of tin ions in Z discharge extreme ultraviolet sources

M Masnavi, M Nakajima, E Hotta, K Horioka… - Journal of applied …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) discharge-based lamps for EUV lithography need to generate
extremely high power in the narrow spectrum band of 13.5±0.135 nm⁠. A simplified …

Results of radius scaling experiments and analysis of neon K-shell radiation data from an inductively driven Z-pinch

RJ Commisso, JP Apruzese, DC Black… - IEEE transactions on …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The K-shell radiated energy (yield) from neon Z-pinch implosions with annular, gas-puff
nozzle radii of 1, 1.75, and 2.5 cm was measured for implosion times from 50 to 300 ns while …