A review of the dense Z-pinch

MG Haines - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The Z-pinch, perhaps the oldest subject in plasma physics, has achieved a remarkable
renaissance in recent years, following a few decades of neglect due to its basically unstable …

A review of projection radiography of plasma and biological objects in X-pinch radiation

TA Shelkovenko, SA Pikuz, DA Hammer - Plasma Physics Reports, 2016 - Springer
A review of studies on the X-pinch as a radiation source for X-ray projection shadow
radiography (XPSR) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is presented. The ultimate …

Effect of discrete wires on the implosion dynamics of wire array Z pinches

SV Lebedev, FN Beg, SN Bland, JP Chittenden… - Physics of …, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
A phenomenological model of wire array Z-pinch implosions, based on the analysis of
experimental data obtained on the mega-ampere generator for plasma implosion …

X-pinch. part i

SA Pikuz, TA Shelkovenko, DA Hammer - Plasma Physics Reports, 2015 - Springer
Results of experimental studies of the X-pinch since its invention and implementation in
1982 at the Lebedev Physical Institute are presented. The concept of the X-pinch arose in …

Electric explosion of fine wires: Three groups of materials

VM Romanova, GV Ivanenkov, AR Mingaleev… - Plasma Physics …, 2015 - Springer
Experimental data demonstrating differences in the structures of channels formed during
nanosecond discharges through fine wires made of different materials are presented. In …

X-ray emission from pinches at A: Current scaling, gap closure, and shot-to-shot fluctuations

WA Stygar, HC Ives, DL Fehl, ME Cuneo… - Physical Review E, 2004 - APS
We have measured the x-ray power and energy radiated by a tungsten-wire-array z pinch as
a function of the peak pinch current and the width of the anode-cathode gap at the base of …

Hybrid X-pinch with conical electrodes

TA Shelkovenko, SA Pikuz, AD Cahill, PF Knapp… - Physics of …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
A hybrid X-pinch configuration consisting of solid conical electrodes connected by a wire
has been tested on a 45 ns risetime, 500 kA peak current pulsed power generator. Wires of …

Multiwire-Pinches at 1-MA Current on the COBRA Pulsed-Power Generator

TA Shelkovenko, SA Pikuz, JD Douglass… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Direct comparison of wire, foil, and hybrid X-pinches on a 200 kA, 150 ns current driver

GW Collins, MP Valdivia, SB Hansen, F Conti… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Relationship between energy deposition and shock wave phenomenon in an underwater electrical wire explosion

R Han, H Zhou, J Wu, A Qiu, W Ding, Y Zhang - Physics of Plasmas, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
An experimental study of pressure waves generated by an exploding copper wire in a water
medium is performed. We examined the effects of energy deposited at different stages on …